Crime Statistics for Moordown, Talbot Village, Bournemouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Moordown in August 2024. There were a total of 405 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 Moordown, 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 Crime135
Anti Social Behaviour64
Shoplifting39
Public Order35
Criminal Damage Arson34
Vehicle Crime33
Other Theft28
Burglary18
Bicycle Theft6
Other Crime5
Drugs3
Theft From The Person2
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery1
All Crime405

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 Moordown. 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 Moordown

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Springbourne (1.39 miles)924
Charminster (0.62 miles)759
Moordown405
Talbot Woods (1.75 miles)367
Red Hill (0.88 miles)330
Talbot Village (1.24 miles)296
Ensbury Park (1.24 miles)296
Mill Throop (0.88 miles)287
Ensbury (1.39 miles)199
Parley Green (1.86 miles)68

13.76%
of Moordown residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Moordown?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Springbourne320
Charminster271
Moordown135
Talbot Woods110
Red Hill109
Talbot Village98
Ensbury Park98
Mill Throop93
Ensbury74
Parley Green21

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

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 Moordown 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 Moordown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bournemouth Central85
2East Cliff & Springbourne84
3Boscombe West82
4Winton East62
5Queen's Park61
6Westbourne & West Cliff54
7Littledown & Ilford46
8Wallisdown & Winton West45
9Redhill & Northbourne37
10Moordown37
11Muscliff & Strouden Park36

Which road in Moordown has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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