Crime Statistics for Forest of Bere, Havant, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Forest of Bere in September 2024. There were a total of 153 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 Forest of Bere, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	77
Vehicle Crime	22
Shoplifting	18
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	9
Other Theft	9
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	153

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 Forest of Bere. 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 Forest of Bere

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wecock (0.98 miles)	302
Anmore (1.58 miles)	179
Waterlooville (1.81 miles)	147
Lovedean (0.98 miles)	99
Horndean (0.98 miles)	99
Forest of Bere	85
Red Hill (1.81 miles)	79
Catherington (1.58 miles)	39
Blendworth (1.32 miles)	39
Finchdean (2.19 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Forest of Bere?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wecock	142
Anmore	86
Forest of Bere	77
Waterlooville	73
Lovedean	52
Horndean	40
Red Hill	32
Catherington	15
Blendworth	9
Finchdean	2

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

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 Forest of Bere 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 Forest of Bere compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Forest of Bere and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Forest of Bere is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Barncroft	88
2	Hart Plain	62
3	Rowlands Castle	59
4	Stakes	57
5	Waterloo	37
6	Cowplain	35
7	Denmead	31
8	Horndean Catherington	18
9	Horndean Murray	17
10	Horndean Kings & Blendworth	17
11	Horndean Downs	11

Which road in Forest of Bere has the highest level of crime?

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