Crime Statistics for Langton Long Blandford, Littleton, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Langton Long Blandford in September 2024. There were a total of 56 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 Langton Long Blandford, 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 Crime23
Shoplifting10
Anti Social Behaviour8
Public Order5
Other Theft4
Criminal Damage Arson4
Possession Of Weapons1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime56

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 Langton Long Blandford. 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 Langton Long Blandford

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Lower Blandford St Mary112
Blandford Forum (0.88 miles)69
Langton Long Blandford56
Blandford St Mary (0.62 miles)29
Bryanston (1.39 miles)28
Littleton (0.62 miles)14
Charlton Marshall (1.39 miles)7
Tarrant Crawford (2.24 miles)6
Charlton on the Hill (1.24 miles)4
Tarrant Keyneston (1.96 miles)2

7.53%
of Blandford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Langton Long Blandford?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Lower Blandford St Mary91
Blandford Forum32
Langton Long Blandford23
Blandford St Mary22
Bryanston12
Littleton9
Tarrant Crawford6
Charlton Marshall2
Tarrant Keyneston1
Charlton on the Hill0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Langton Long Blandford?

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 Langton Long Blandford 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 Langton Long Blandford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Wimborne Minster44
2Stour & Allen Vale27
3Beacon26
4Blandford25
5Cranborne Chase17
6Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants15
7Colehill & Wimborne Minster East14
8Blackmore Vale11
9Winterborne North10
10Puddletown & Lower Winterborne8
11Corfe Mullen7

Which road in Langton Long Blandford has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Langton Long Blandford 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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