Crime Statistics for Waterditch, Burton, Dorset, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waterditch in October 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Public Order	3
Violent Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	7

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 Waterditch. 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 Waterditch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Christchurch (3.1 miles)	117
Jumpers Common (2.77 miles)	101
Fairmile (2.24 miles)	99
Walkford (2.24 miles)	36
South Bockhampton (0.88 miles)	23
Highcliffe (2.63 miles)	16
Beckley (2.48 miles)	15
Friars Cliff (2.56 miles)	9
Waterditch	7
Avon (2.77 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Waterditch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Jumpers Common	30
Fairmile	27
Christchurch	26
Walkford	12
South Bockhampton	7
Beckley	7
Friars Cliff	4
Waterditch	3
Highcliffe	2
Avon	1

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

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 Waterditch 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 Waterditch compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Waterditch and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Waterditch have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Highcliffe & Walkford.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ringwood East and Sopley	55
2	Brockenhurst and Forest South East	48
3	West Southbourne	47
4	Bransgore and Burley	45
5	Burton & Grange	42
6	Christchurch Town	38
7	East Southbourne & Tuckton	25
8	Bashley	24
9	Mudeford, Stanpit & West Highcliffe	17
10	Barton	11
11	Highcliffe & Walkford	7

Which road in Waterditch has the highest level of crime?

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