Crime Statistics for Minterne Parva, Up Cerne, Dorset, 2024

Crime statistics for Minterne Parva, Up Cerne

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in January 2024. The largest category was Vehicle Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime1

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 Minterne Parva. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Minterne Parva

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Higher Chalmington (4.51 miles)1
Boys Hill (4.39 miles)1
Minterne Parva1
Holnest (3.78 miles)1
Up Cerne (0.88 miles)1
Holywell (4.38 miles)1
Cosmore (1.39 miles)1
Frome St Quintin (4.38 miles)0
Batcombe (3.16 miles)0
Tiley (1.96 miles)0

6.22%
of Chalk Valleys residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Minterne Parva?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Holywell1
Higher Chalmington0
Boys Hill0
Minterne Parva0
Holnest0
Up Cerne0
Cosmore0
Frome St Quintin0
Batcombe0
Tiley0

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

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 Minterne Parva 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 Minterne Parva compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Dorchester Poundbury45
2Dorchester West36
3Dorchester East28
4Winterborne & Broadmayne17
5Eggardon17
6Charminster St Mary's15
7Sherborne East13
8Chalk Valleys13
9Blackmore Vale11
10Sherborne West8
11Yetminster5

Which road in Minterne Parva has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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