Crime Statistics for Sherborne, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sherborne in October 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 Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sherborne, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime35
Vehicle Crime11
Anti Social Behaviour9
Shoplifting8
Public Order4
Other Theft3
Criminal Damage Arson2
Robbery1
Burglary1
All Crime74

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Sherborne. 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 Sherborne

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Up Mudford (3.92 miles)90
Sherborne74
Oborne (1.76 miles)26
Gore (2.77 miles)10
Beer Hackett (3.97 miles)3
Nether Compton (2.56 miles)3
Milborne Wick (3.1 miles)3
Longburton (2.56 miles)1
Parkway (3.97 miles)1
Stallen (1.86 miles)1

8.74%
of Sherborne West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sherborne?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Up Mudford69
Sherborne35
Oborne17
Gore6
Nether Compton1
Longburton1
Parkway1
Beer Hackett0
Milborne Wick0
Stallen0

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

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 Sherborne 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 Sherborne compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Yeovil Lyde79
2Yeovil College71
3Yeovil Summerlands52
4Yeovil Westland45
5Yeovil Without40
6Brympton34
7Milborne Port18
8Blackmoor Vale16
9Sherborne East13
10Sherborne West8
11Sherborne Rural6

Which road in Sherborne has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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