Crime Statistics for Shaftesbury, Cann, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shaftesbury in September 2024. There were a total of 28 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Violent Crime	5
Shoplifting	5
Burglary	3
Other Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Theft	2
All Crime	28

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 Shaftesbury. 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 Shaftesbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ivy Cross (0.62 miles)	53
St James	28
Shaftesbury	28
Alcester (0.62 miles)	20
Enmore Green (0.88 miles)	14
Bittles Green (1.39 miles)	9
Stour Row (2.56 miles)	3
Cann (0.88 miles)	2
Charlton (2.48 miles)	1
Cann Common (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Shaftesbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ivy Cross	13
Alcester	10
St James	7
Shaftesbury	5
Enmore Green	2
Bittles Green	1
Charlton	1
Stour Row	0
Cann	0
Cann Common	0

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

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 Shaftesbury 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 Shaftesbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shaftesbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shaftesbury is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Wincanton	48
2	Shaftesbury Town	28
3	Mere	28
4	Tisbury	27
5	Beacon	26
6	Blandford	25
7	Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants	15
8	Gillingham	12
9	Sturminster Newton	12
10	Blackmore Vale	11
11	Stalbridge & Marnhull	2

Which road in Shaftesbury has the highest level of crime?

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