Crime Statistics for Sandford, Wareham, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandford in September 2024. There were a total of 29 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sandford, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	12
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Shoplifting	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
Drugs	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	29

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 Sandford. 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 Sandford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ware (1.24 miles)	43
Northport (0.62 miles)	31
Sandford	29
Lake (3.77 miles)	23
Stoborough (1.86 miles)	16
Post Green (3.1 miles)	6
Cold Harbour (1.24 miles)	2
Rushton (3.62 miles)	2
Binnegar (3.34 miles)	1
Stoborough Green (2.49 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Sandford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ware	20
Northport	16
Sandford	12
Stoborough	9
Lake	3
Post Green	2
Cold Harbour	0
Rushton	0
Binnegar	0
Stoborough Green	0

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

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 Sandford 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 Sandford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sandford is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Poole Town	47
2	Hamworthy	40
3	Lytchett Matravers & Upton	30
4	Oakdale	29
5	Stour & Allen Vale	27
6	South East Purbeck	24
7	Wareham	24
8	Creekmoor	20
9	Broadstone	8
10	Puddletown & Lower Winterborne	8
11	Corfe Mullen	7

Which road in Sandford has the highest level of crime?

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