Crime Statistics for Margaret Marsh, West Orchard, Dorset, 2024

Crime statistics for Margaret Marsh, West Orchard

There were no crime incidents reported to the Police in Margaret Marsh in January 2024.

Crime CategoryIncidents
All Crime0

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Margaret Marsh. 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.

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Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Margaret Marsh

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

LocationCrime Incidents
St James (3.51 miles)14
Shaftesbury (3.51 miles)14
Alcester (3.1 miles)6
Walton Elm (2.56 miles)3
Compton Abbas (3.1 miles)2
Pleck (3.16 miles)2
Bedchester (1.96 miles)2
Twyford (1.86 miles)1
Stour Row (1.86 miles)0
Margaret Marsh0

9.25%
of Beacon (Dorset) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Margaret Marsh?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
St James6
Shaftesbury6
Alcester2
Compton Abbas2
Bedchester2
Twyford1
Walton Elm0
Pleck0
Stour Row0
Margaret Marsh0

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

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 Margaret Marsh 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 Margaret Marsh compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Margaret Marsh and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Margaret Marsh is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Wincanton48
2Shaftesbury Town28
3Mere28
4Beacon26
5Blandford25
6Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants15
7Gillingham12
8Sturminster Newton12
9Blackmore Vale11
10Winterborne North10
11Stalbridge & Marnhull2

Which road in Margaret Marsh has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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