Crime Statistics for Hampreston, Bear Cross, Dorset, 2024

There were a total of 19 street level crime incidents in Hampreston in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Violent Crime	3
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Shoplifting	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	19

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hampreston. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Hampreston

We've taken the ten nearest places to Hampreston and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Hampreston has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
West Howe (1.86 miles)	210
Bear Cross (0.88 miles)	126
Bearwood (0.62 miles)	93
Dudsbury (1.24 miles)	41
Ferndown (1.75 miles)	34
Knighton (0.88 miles)	31
Longham (0.62 miles)	24
Hampreston	19
Little Canford (0.88 miles)	11
Canford Magna (1.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Hampreston?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Hampreston and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
West Howe	73
Bear Cross	43
Bearwood	30
Dudsbury	10
Knighton	9
Ferndown	7
Longham	6
Hampreston	3
Little Canford	2
Canford Magna	2

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Hampreston?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Hampreston to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Hampreston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hampreston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hampreston is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kinson	61
2	Alderney & Bourne Valley	53
3	Wallisdown & Winton West	45
4	Wimborne Minster	44
5	Muscliff & Strouden Park	36
6	Bearwood & Merley	30
7	Canford Heath	26
8	Ferndown South	17
9	Colehill & Wimborne Minster East	14
10	West Parley	8
11	Ferndown North	8

Which road in Hampreston has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Hampreston with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Petwyn Close.