Crime Statistics for Durns Town, New Forest, Hampshire, 2024

There were a total of 10 street level crime incidents in Durns Town in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Violent Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	10

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 Durns Town. 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 Durns Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Buckland (2.24 miles)	71
Tiptoe (1.96 miles)	25
Hordle (1.96 miles)	16
Avon Water (0.38 miles)	10
Birchy Hill	10
Durns Town	10
Battramsley Cross (1.86 miles)	9
Bowling Green (1.39 miles)	4
Shirley Holms (1.24 miles)	2
Battramsley (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Durns Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Buckland	33
Tiptoe	14
Hordle	9
Battramsley Cross	3
Avon Water	2
Birchy Hill	2
Durns Town	2
Bowling Green	0
Shirley Holms	0
Battramsley	0

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

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 Durns Town 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 Durns Town compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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 Durns Town has the highest level of crime?

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