Crime Statistics for Nether Compton, Over Compton, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Nether Compton in September 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	1

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 Nether Compton. 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 Nether Compton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hollands (2.48 miles)	595
Pen Mill (1.96 miles)	526
Up Mudford (1.39 miles)	113
Sherborne (2.56 miles)	40
Barwick (3.1 miles)	6
Stoford (3.1 miles)	6
Gore (0.62 miles)	5
Parkway (2.49 miles)	1
Nether Compton	1
Stallen (0.88 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Nether Compton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hollands	220
Pen Mill	206
Up Mudford	59
Sherborne	11
Gore	3
Barwick	1
Stoford	1
Parkway	0
Nether Compton	0
Stallen	0

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

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 Nether Compton 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 Nether Compton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Nether Compton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Nether Compton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Yeovil Lyde.

#	Ward	Score
1	Yeovil Lyde	79
2	Yeovil College	71
3	Coker	53
4	Yeovil Summerlands	52
5	Yeovil Westland	45
6	Yeovil Without	40
7	Brympton	34
8	Northstone, Ivelchester & St Michael's	23
9	Sherborne East	13
10	Sherborne West	8
11	Sherborne Rural	6

Which road in Nether Compton has the highest level of crime?

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