Crime Statistics for Ivy Cross, Enmore Green, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ivy Cross in August 2024. There were a total of 78 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 Ivy Cross, 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 Crime32
Anti Social Behaviour14
Shoplifting6
Criminal Damage Arson6
Public Order6
Burglary6
Vehicle Crime4
Drugs2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime78

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ivy Cross80
St James (0.62 miles)54
Shaftesbury (0.62 miles)29
Enmore Green (0.62 miles)26
Alcester (0.88 miles)20
Bittles Green (0.88 miles)9
Cann (1.39 miles)4
Donhead St Mary (2.56 miles)3
Cann Common (1.75 miles)2
Charlton (2.56 miles)1

8.48%
of Shaftesbury Town residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ivy Cross?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ivy Cross32
St James16
Shaftesbury10
Enmore Green10
Alcester10
Cann2
Bittles Green1
Cann Common1
Donhead St Mary0
Charlton0

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

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 Ivy Cross 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 Ivy Cross compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Wincanton48
2Shaftesbury Town28
3Mere28
4Tisbury27
5Beacon26
6Blandford25
7Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants15
8Gillingham12
9Sturminster Newton12
10Blackmore Vale11
11Stalbridge & Marnhull2

Which road in Ivy Cross has the highest level of crime?

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

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