Crime Statistics for Canford Cliffs, Poole, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Canford Cliffs in September 2024. There were a total of 25 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Burglary.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour6
Burglary6
Other Theft4
Vehicle Crime4
Violent Crime3
Bicycle Theft1
Public Order1
All Crime25

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 Canford Cliffs. 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 Canford Cliffs

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bournemouth (2.24 miles)1008
Talbot Woods (2.24 miles)311
Oakdale (2.63 miles)283
Longfleet (2.77 miles)248
Wallisdown (2.49 miles)242
Bourne Valley (2.56 miles)214
Talbot Heath (2.56 miles)214
Parkstone (1.76 miles)149
Canford Cliffs25
Sandbanks (1.39 miles)6

6.02%
of South East Purbeck residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Canford Cliffs?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bournemouth288
Longfleet117
Oakdale90
Wallisdown78
Talbot Woods76
Bourne Valley73
Talbot Heath69
Parkstone49
Canford Cliffs3
Sandbanks0

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

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 Canford Cliffs 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 Canford Cliffs compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bournemouth Central85
2Newtown & Heatherlands55
3Westbourne & West Cliff54
4Talbot & Branksome Woods53
5Poole Town47
6Hamworthy40
7Penn Hill36
8Parkstone32
9Canford Cliffs31
10Oakdale29
11South East Purbeck24

Which road in Canford Cliffs has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Canford Cliffs with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Middle Street.

Last updated: September 2024
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