Crime Statistics for Corfe, Corfe Castle, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Corfe in September 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime3
Violent Crime1
All Crime4

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 Corfe. 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 Corfe

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stoborough (3.17 miles)62
Little Woolgarston (1.26 miles)15
New Buildings (2.55 miles)10
Isle of Purbeck (1.08 miles)8
Corfe4
Corfe Castle (1.06 miles)4
Stoborough Green (2.81 miles)3
Langton Matravers (3.5 miles)1
Acton (3.2 miles)0
Bushey (1.31 miles)0

7.28%
of Swanage residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Corfe?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Stoborough20
Little Woolgarston8
Isle of Purbeck5
New Buildings3
Corfe1
Corfe Castle1
Stoborough Green0
Langton Matravers0
Acton0
Bushey0

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

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 Corfe 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 Corfe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Corfe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Corfe is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Poole Town47
2Hamworthy40
3Parkstone32
4Lytchett Matravers & Upton30
5Oakdale29
6Stour & Allen Vale27
7South East Purbeck24
8Wareham24
9Swanage23
10Creekmoor20
11Broadstone8

Which road in Corfe has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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