Crime Statistics for Fairmile, Burton, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fairmile in September 2024. There were a total of 123 incidents. 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 Fairmile, 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 Crime33
Anti Social Behaviour21
Criminal Damage Arson12
Shoplifting12
Other Theft10
Burglary9
Vehicle Crime9
Public Order6
Robbery5
Drugs3
Bicycle Theft2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime123

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 Fairmile. 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 Fairmile

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Iford (1.39 miles)193
Jumpers Common (0.62 miles)181
Stour (1.13 miles)151
Tuckton (1.39 miles)137
Christchurch (1.24 miles)107
Boscombe (1.34 miles)103
Fairmile95
Southbourne (1.36 miles)94
Blackwater (1.39 miles)92
South Bockhampton (1.39 miles)42

7.99%
of Christchurch Town residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fairmile?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Iford73
Jumpers Common56
Stour48
Tuckton38
Fairmile33
Blackwater30
Christchurch22
Boscombe22
Southbourne20
South Bockhampton20

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

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 Fairmile 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 Fairmile compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Boscombe West82
2Boscombe East & Pokesdown76
3Queen's Park61
4Ringwood East and Sopley55
5West Southbourne47
6Littledown & Ilford46
7Burton & Grange42
8Christchurch Town38
9East Southbourne & Tuckton25
10Mudeford, Stanpit & West Highcliffe17
11Highcliffe & Walkford7

Which road in Fairmile has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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