Crime Statistics for St Leonards, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Leonards in October 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	8
Violent Crime	4
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	21

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 St Leonards. 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 St Leonards

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moortown (2.56 miles)	69
Ashley Heath (0.62 miles)	46
St Ives (0.88 miles)	26
Ameysford (2.56 miles)	22
St Leonards	21
Ashley (1.39 miles)	17
Crow (3.1 miles)	8
Grange Estate (1.24 miles)	7
Ebblake (2.56 miles)	6
Bisterne (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near St Leonards?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ameysford	24
Moortown	17
Ashley Heath	7
St Ives	5
St Leonards	4
Ashley	2
Grange Estate	2
Ebblake	2
Crow	0
Bisterne	0

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

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 St Leonards 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 St Leonards compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Leonards and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.St Leonards is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Forest North West	63
2	Ringwood South	55
3	Ringwood North	36
4	Muscliff & Strouden Park	36
5	West Moors & Three Legged Cross	25
6	Commons	25
7	St Leonards & St Ives	23
8	Ferndown South	17
9	Verwood	11
10	West Parley	8
11	Ferndown North	8

Which road in St Leonards has the highest level of crime?

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