Crime Statistics for New Buildings, Acton, Dorset, 2024

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	1

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 New Buildings. 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 New Buildings

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Swanage	44
Ulwell	44
Herston (1.76 miles)	17
Isle of Purbeck (1.49 miles)	3
Corfe Castle (1.96 miles)	3
Little Woolgarston (1.39 miles)	3
New Buildings	1
Acton (1.39 miles)	1
Langton Matravers (1.24 miles)	1
Bushey (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near New Buildings?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Swanage	15
Ulwell	15
Herston	7
Isle of Purbeck	2
Corfe Castle	2
Little Woolgarston	2
New Buildings	0
Acton	0
Langton Matravers	0
Bushey	0

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

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 New Buildings 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 New Buildings compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Buildings and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in New Buildings have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Talbot & Branksome Woods.

#	Ward	Score
1	Talbot & Branksome Woods	53
2	Poole Town	47
3	Hamworthy	40
4	Penn Hill	36
5	Parkstone	32
6	Canford Cliffs	31
7	Lytchett Matravers & Upton	30
8	Oakdale	29
9	South East Purbeck	24
10	Wareham	24
11	Swanage	23

Which road in New Buildings has the highest level of crime?

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