Crime Statistics for Rushton, Highwood, Dorset, 2024

Crime statistics for Rushton, Highwood

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft1
All Crime1

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 Rushton. 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 Rushton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ware (3.16 miles)49
Northport (3.34 miles)44
Stoborough (3.1 miles)39
Giddy Green (2.48 miles)16
Bovington Camp (3.1 miles)9
Stoborough Green (3.16 miles)9
Stokeford (0.88 miles)2
Binnegar (0.62 miles)1
Rushton1
Cold Harbour (2.63 miles)0

7.62%
of West Purbeck residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Rushton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Northport14
Ware13
Stoborough9
Giddy Green4
Bovington Camp4
Stoborough Green0
Stokeford0
Binnegar0
Rushton0
Cold Harbour0

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

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 Rushton 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 Rushton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Poole Town47
2Hamworthy40
3Lytchett Matravers & Upton30
4Stour & Allen Vale27
5Wareham24
6Crossways20
7Winterborne & Broadmayne17
8West Purbeck14
9Broadstone8
10Puddletown & Lower Winterborne8
11Corfe Mullen7

Which road in Rushton has the highest level of crime?

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

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