Crime Statistics for Bowling Green, New Forest, Hampshire, 2024

There were a total of 4 street level crime incidents in Bowling Green in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	4

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 Bowling Green. 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 Bowling Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Buckland (1.24 miles)	71
Pennington (1.76 miles)	35
Hordle (1.39 miles)	16
Avon Water (1.54 miles)	10
Birchy Hill (1.39 miles)	10
Durns Town (1.39 miles)	10
Battramsley Cross (1.75 miles)	9
Everton (1.24 miles)	5
Bowling Green	4
Shirley Holms (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Bowling Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Buckland	33
Pennington	17
Hordle	9
Battramsley Cross	3
Avon Water	2
Birchy Hill	2
Durns Town	2
Everton	2
Bowling Green	0
Shirley Holms	0

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

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 Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Pennington	59
2	Milton	52
3	Brockenhurst and Forest South East	48
4	Lymington Town	48
5	Becton	44
6	Fernhill	40
7	Buckland	30
8	Boldre and Sway	17
9	Milford	15
10	Barton	11
11	Hordle	9

Which road in Bowling Green has the highest level of crime?

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