Crime Statistics for Balmerlawn, New Forest, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Balmerlawn in September 2024. There were a total of 33 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Public Order.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	14
Public Order	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Violent Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
All Crime	33

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 Balmerlawn. 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 Balmerlawn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Balmerlawn	27
Brockenhurst (0.88 miles)	19
Durns Town (3.35 miles)	14
Boldre (3.34 miles)	12
Custards (3.17 miles)	11
Goose Green (2.49 miles)	10
Battramsley Cross (3.17 miles)	9
Battramsley (2.49 miles)	4
Shirley Holms (3.11 miles)	2
North Weirs (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Balmerlawn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Durns Town	6
Boldre	4
Balmerlawn	3
Brockenhurst	2
Custards	2
Goose Green	2
Battramsley Cross	1
Battramsley	1
Shirley Holms	1
North Weirs	0

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

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 Balmerlawn 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 Balmerlawn compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Balmerlawn and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Balmerlawn is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pennington	59
2	Milton	52
3	Brockenhurst and Forest South East	48
4	Becton	44
5	Fernhill	40
6	Ashurst, Copythorne South and Netley Marsh	38
7	Buckland	30
8	Lyndhurst	21
9	Boldre and Sway	17
10	Milford	15
11	Hordle	9

Which road in Balmerlawn has the highest level of crime?

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