Crime Statistics for Charminster, Bournemouth, Bournemouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Charminster in September 2024. There were a total of 348 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	89
Violent Crime	89
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Vehicle Crime	28
Other Theft	23
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Burglary	13
Bicycle Theft	7
Other Crime	4
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	348

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 Charminster. 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 Charminster

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Springbourne (1.24 miles)	792
Pokesdown (1.76 miles)	471
Charminster	348
Littledown (1.39 miles)	317
Moordown (0.62 miles)	307
Red Hill (1.39 miles)	270
Ensbury Park (1.86 miles)	257
Ensbury (1.76 miles)	247
Mill Throop (0.62 miles)	226
Holdenhurst (1.39 miles)	187

Where are the most violent places near Charminster?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Springbourne	207
Pokesdown	186
Littledown	101
Charminster	89
Ensbury	85
Red Hill	84
Moordown	72
Ensbury Park	69
Holdenhurst	63
Mill Throop	51

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

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 Charminster 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 Charminster compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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	Littledown & Ilford	46
8	Wallisdown & Winton West	45
9	Redhill & Northbourne	37
10	Moordown	37
11	Muscliff & Strouden Park	36

Which road in Charminster has the highest level of crime?

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