Crime Statistics for Bittles Green, Enmore Green, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bittles Green in October 2024. There were a total of 74 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Other Theft	16
Violent Crime	14
Shoplifting	12
Vehicle Crime	4
Theft From The Person	4
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
All Crime	74

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 Bittles Green. 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 Bittles Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St James (1.39 miles)	72
Ivy Cross (0.88 miles)	70
Enmore Green (0.62 miles)	50
Shaftesbury (1.39 miles)	43
Bittles Green	38
Ham Common (2.56 miles)	36
Alcester (1.24 miles)	19
Cann Common (2.63 miles)	4
Cann (2.24 miles)	1
Stour Row (2.63 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Bittles Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Enmore Green	22
St James	19
Ivy Cross	18
Bittles Green	14
Ham Common	11
Shaftesbury	10
Alcester	9
Cann Common	0
Cann	0
Stour Row	0

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

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 Bittles Green 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 Bittles Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bittles Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bittles Green is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Wincanton	48
2	Shaftesbury Town	28
3	Mere	28
4	Tisbury	27
5	Beacon	26
6	Blandford	25
7	Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants	15
8	Gillingham	12
9	Sturminster Newton	12
10	Blackmore Vale	11
11	Stalbridge & Marnhull	2

Which road in Bittles Green has the highest level of crime?

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