Crime Statistics for Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holdenhurst in September 2024. There were a total of 198 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 Holdenhurst, 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	63
Anti Social Behaviour	40
Shoplifting	22
Vehicle Crime	18
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	13
Public Order	9
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	8
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	198

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 Holdenhurst. 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 Holdenhurst

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pokesdown (1.86 miles)	471
Charminster (1.39 miles)	348
Littledown (1.24 miles)	317
Mill Throop (1.24 miles)	226
Iford (1.39 miles)	193
Holdenhurst	187
Jumpers Common (1.39 miles)	181
Stour (1.1 miles)	151
Fairmile (1.96 miles)	95
Blackwater (0.62 miles)	92

Where are the most violent places near Holdenhurst?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pokesdown	186
Littledown	101
Charminster	89
Iford	73
Holdenhurst	63
Jumpers Common	56
Mill Throop	51
Stour	48
Fairmile	33
Blackwater	30

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

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 Holdenhurst 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 Holdenhurst compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	East Cliff & Springbourne	84
2	Boscombe West	82
3	Boscombe East & Pokesdown	76
4	Winton East	62
5	Queen's Park	61
6	West Southbourne	47
7	Littledown & Ilford	46
8	Redhill & Northbourne	37
9	Moordown	37
10	Muscliff & Strouden Park	36
11	East Southbourne & Tuckton	25

Which road in Holdenhurst has the highest level of crime?

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