Crime Statistics for Iford, Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Iford in September 2024. There were a total of 206 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Iford, 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	73
Shoplifting	34
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Vehicle Crime	20
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Public Order	10
Other Theft	9
Burglary	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	206

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 Iford. 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 Iford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pokesdown (0.88 miles)	471
Littledown (0.62 miles)	317
Iford	193
Holdenhurst (1.39 miles)	187
Jumpers Common (0.88 miles)	181
Stour (0.45 miles)	151
Tuckton (0.88 miles)	137
Christchurch (1.39 miles)	107
Fairmile (1.39 miles)	95
Blackwater (1.24 miles)	92

Where are the most violent places near Iford?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Iford 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
Holdenhurst	63
Jumpers Common	56
Stour	48
Tuckton	38
Fairmile	33
Blackwater	30
Christchurch	22

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

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 Iford 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 Iford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Iford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Iford is ranked #4.

#	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	Burton & Grange	42
10	Christchurch Town	38
11	East Southbourne & Tuckton	25

Which road in Iford has the highest level of crime?

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