Crime Statistics for Boscombe, Wick, Bournemouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boscombe in September 2024. There were a total of 103 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Violent Crime	22
Shoplifting	14
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	6
Other Theft	6
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Robbery	3
Theft From The Person	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	103

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 Boscombe. 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 Boscombe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pokesdown (1.86 miles)	471
Littledown (1.99 miles)	317
Iford (1.43 miles)	193
Jumpers Common (1.48 miles)	181
Stour (1.6 miles)	151
Tuckton (0.62 miles)	137
Christchurch (0.1 miles)	107
Boscombe	103
Fairmile (1.34 miles)	95
Southbourne (0.03 miles)	94

Where are the most violent places near Boscombe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pokesdown	186
Littledown	101
Iford	73
Jumpers Common	56
Stour	48
Tuckton	38
Fairmile	33
Christchurch	22
Boscombe	22
Southbourne	20

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

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 Boscombe 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 Boscombe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Boscombe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Boscombe is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bournemouth Central	85
2	East Cliff & Springbourne	84
3	Boscombe West	82
4	Boscombe East & Pokesdown	76
5	Winton East	62
6	Queen's Park	61
7	West Southbourne	47
8	Littledown & Ilford	46
9	Moordown	37
10	Canford Cliffs	31
11	East Southbourne & Tuckton	25

Which road in Boscombe has the highest level of crime?

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