Crime Statistics for Lower Bockhampton, West Stafford, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Bockhampton in September 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Drugs.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	6

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 Lower Bockhampton. 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 Lower Bockhampton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dorchester (2.48 miles)	166
Frome (1.45 miles)	99
Charminster (2.77 miles)	38
Stinsford (0.88 miles)	35
Crossways (3.34 miles)	15
Higher Bockhampton (1.24 miles)	6
Lower Bockhampton	6
Higher Woodsford (2.56 miles)	6
Broadmayne (2.49 miles)	2
Tincleton (3.16 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Lower Bockhampton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dorchester	76
Frome	41
Charminster	19
Stinsford	13
Crossways	10
Higher Woodsford	5
Higher Bockhampton	1
Lower Bockhampton	1
Broadmayne	0
Tincleton	0

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

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 Lower Bockhampton 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 Lower Bockhampton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Melcombe Regis	79
2	Westham	52
3	Dorchester Poundbury	45
4	Dorchester West	36
5	Radipole	36
6	Littlemoor & Preston	36
7	Dorchester East	28
8	Crossways	20
9	Winterborne & Broadmayne	17
10	Charminster St Mary's	15
11	Upwey & Broadwey	13

Which road in Lower Bockhampton has the highest level of crime?

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