Crime Statistics for Bearwood, Bear Cross, Poole, 2024

Crime statistics for Bearwood, Bear Cross

There were a total of 70 street level crime incidents in Bearwood in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour18
Violent Crime16
Criminal Damage Arson10
Shoplifting7
Other Theft6
Burglary6
Vehicle Crime4
Public Order2
Drugs1
All Crime70

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Turbary Common (1.86 miles)239
West Howe (1.24 miles)177
Bear Cross (0.62 miles)94
Bearwood70
Dudsbury (1.39 miles)54
Longham (0.88 miles)26
Hampreston (0.62 miles)23
Knighton (0.62 miles)17
Little Canford (1.39 miles)11
Canford Magna (1.39 miles)7

7.64%
of Bearwood & Merley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bearwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Turbary Common93
West Howe66
Bear Cross32
Dudsbury20
Bearwood16
Hampreston12
Longham10
Little Canford7
Knighton5
Canford Magna2

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

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 Bearwood 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 Bearwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bearwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Bearwood is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Kinson61
2Newtown & Heatherlands55
3Alderney & Bourne Valley53
4Wallisdown & Winton West45
5Redhill & Northbourne37
6Muscliff & Strouden Park36
7Bearwood & Merley30
8Canford Heath26
9Ferndown South17
10West Parley8
11Ferndown North8

Which road in Bearwood has the highest level of crime?

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

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