Crime Statistics for Talbot Heath, Penn Hill, Poole, 2024

There were a total of 195 street level crime incidents in Talbot Heath in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Talbot Heath, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	72
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Vehicle Crime	15
Shoplifting	13
Other Theft	12
Public Order	9
Burglary	8
Other Crime	5
Drugs	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	195

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 Talbot Heath. 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 Talbot Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Talbot Woods (0.88 miles)	294
Wallisdown (0.62 miles)	255
Red Hill (1.76 miles)	244
Talbot Village (0.88 miles)	241
Ensbury Park (0.88 miles)	241
Turbary Common (0.88 miles)	226
West Howe (1.39 miles)	210
Bourne Valley	195
Talbot Heath	195
Alderney (1.39 miles)	193

Where are the most violent places near Talbot Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wallisdown	104
Alderney	89
Talbot Village	88
Ensbury Park	88
Turbary Common	88
Red Hill	83
West Howe	73
Bourne Valley	72
Talbot Heath	72
Talbot Woods	66

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

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 Talbot Heath 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 Talbot Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Talbot Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Talbot Heath is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kinson	61
2	Newtown & Heatherlands	55
3	Westbourne & West Cliff	54
4	Alderney & Bourne Valley	53
5	Talbot & Branksome Woods	53
6	Wallisdown & Winton West	45
7	Redhill & Northbourne	37
8	Penn Hill	36
9	Parkstone	32
10	Canford Cliffs	31
11	Bearwood & Merley	30

Which road in Talbot Heath has the highest level of crime?

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