Crime Statistics for Bere Regis, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bere Regis in September 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Theft From The Person.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bere Regis, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime2
Theft From The Person1
Other Theft1
All Crime4

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Milborne St Andrew (2.77 miles)16
Bere Regis4
Bovington Camp (3.78 miles)2
Lane End (1.86 miles)1
Higher Whatcombe (3.78 miles)1
Mapperton (4.16 miles)1
Anderson (2.24 miles)1
Bloxworth (2.56 miles)0
Newport (2.56 miles)0
Warren (2.56 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 Bere Regis?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Milborne St Andrew18
Bere Regis2
Bovington Camp2
Mapperton1
Lane End0
Higher Whatcombe0
Anderson0
Bloxworth0
Newport0
Warren0

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

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 Bere Regis 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 Bere Regis compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bere Regis and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bere Regis is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Lytchett Matravers & Upton30
2Dorchester East28
3Stour & Allen Vale27
4Blandford25
5Wareham24
6Crossways20
7Winterborne & Broadmayne17
8Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants15
9West Purbeck14
10Winterborne North10
11Puddletown & Lower Winterborne8

Which road in Bere Regis has the highest level of crime?

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

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