Crime Statistics for Iford, Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Iford in October 2024. There were a total of 237 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 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	59
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Other Theft	29
Vehicle Crime	25
Shoplifting	18
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Burglary	17
Public Order	10
Bicycle Theft	6
Drugs	5
Other Crime	4
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	237

Map of street level crime incidents in October 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
Littledown (0.62 miles)	321
Pokesdown (0.88 miles)	317
Holdenhurst (1.39 miles)	226
Iford	162
Stour (0.45 miles)	126
Tuckton (0.88 miles)	122
Christchurch (1.39 miles)	117
Jumpers Common (0.88 miles)	101
Fairmile (1.39 miles)	99
Blackwater (1.24 miles)	74

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
Littledown	104
Pokesdown	102
Iford	59
Holdenhurst	58
Stour	45
Tuckton	30
Jumpers Common	30
Fairmile	27
Christchurch	26
Blackwater	26

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.