Crime Statistics for Moreton, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Moreton in July 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Moreton, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime1
All Crime1

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Giddy Green (2.63 miles)22
Bovington Camp (1.86 miles)15
Redbridge (1.39 miles)10
Crossways (1.96 miles)9
Higher Woodsford (2.48 miles)7
Pallington (1.76 miles)2
Moreton1
Portway (2.49 miles)1
Blacknoll (1.86 miles)1
Tincleton (2.24 miles)0

6.5%
of Crossways residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Moreton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bovington Camp10
Giddy Green6
Redbridge6
Crossways3
Higher Woodsford3
Moreton1
Pallington0
Portway0
Blacknoll0
Tincleton0

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

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 Moreton 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 Moreton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Moreton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Moreton is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Dorchester Poundbury45
2Dorchester West36
3Radipole36
4Littlemoor & Preston36
5Dorchester East28
6Crossways20
7Winterborne & Broadmayne17
8Charminster St Mary's15
9West Purbeck14
10Upwey & Broadwey13
11Puddletown & Lower Winterborne8

Which road in Moreton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Moreton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around A353.

Last updated: July 2024
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