Crime Statistics for Stoke Wake, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Stoke Wake in August 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft1
All Crime1

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shillingstone (4.85 miles)9
The Bridge (4.52 miles)9
Packers Hill (3.97 miles)3
Newton (4.39 miles)2
Droop (1.39 miles)1
Hedge End (3.72 miles)1
Crouch Hill (4.47 miles)1
Cheselbourne (4.35 miles)1
Stoke Wake1
Okeford Fitzpaine (3.51 miles)1

5.35%
of Blackmore Vale residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Stoke Wake?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
The Bridge5
Newton4
Shillingstone1
Packers Hill0
Droop0
Hedge End0
Crouch Hill0
Cheselbourne0
Stoke Wake0
Okeford Fitzpaine0

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

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 Stoke Wake 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 Stoke Wake compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Beacon26
2Blandford25
3Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants15
4Sherborne East13
5Chalk Valleys13
6Gillingham12
7Sturminster Newton12
8Blackmore Vale11
9Winterborne North10
10Puddletown & Lower Winterborne8
11Stalbridge & Marnhull2

Which road in Stoke Wake has the highest level of crime?

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

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