Crime Statistics for Radipole, Southill, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Radipole in September 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 Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	25
Violent Crime	20
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Other Theft	8
Public Order	4
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Other Crime	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	74

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 Radipole. 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 Radipole

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Southill (0.62 miles)	108
Littlemoor (1.39 miles)	92
Radipole	74
Nottington (0.62 miles)	44
Redlands (0.62 miles)	44
Broadwey (1.24 miles)	28
Chickerell (1.39 miles)	27
Coldharbour (0.62 miles)	26
Charlestown (1.76 miles)	19
Buckland Ripers (1.39 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Radipole?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Southill	40
Littlemoor	28
Radipole	20
Charlestown	14
Broadwey	12
Nottington	9
Redlands	9
Coldharbour	9
Chickerell	4
Buckland Ripers	1

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

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 Radipole 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 Radipole compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Melcombe Regis	79
2	Westham	52
3	Portland	46
4	Dorchester Poundbury	45
5	Rodwell & Wyke	38
6	Radipole	36
7	Littlemoor & Preston	36
8	Chickerell	28
9	Crossways	20
10	Charminster St Mary's	15
11	Upwey & Broadwey	13

Which road in Radipole has the highest level of crime?

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