Crime Statistics for Sherborne St John, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sherborne St John in September 2024. There were a total of 170 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sherborne St John, 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	69
Public Order	24
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Other Theft	16
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Drugs	6
Burglary	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	170

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 Sherborne St John. 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 Sherborne St John

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Basingstoke (1.96 miles)	605
Oakridge (1.39 miles)	414
South View (1.96 miles)	344
Popley (1.39 miles)	271
Daneshill (2.24 miles)	264
South Ham (2.56 miles)	185
Sherborne St John	170
Black Dam (2.78 miles)	164
Chineham (1.86 miles)	149
Buckskin (2.78 miles)	78

Where are the most violent places near Sherborne St John?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Basingstoke	232
Oakridge	148
Popley	126
South View	125
Daneshill	99
Black Dam	96
South Ham	86
Sherborne St John	69
Chineham	68
Buckskin	47

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

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 Sherborne St John 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 Sherborne St John compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sherborne St John and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sherborne St John is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	South Ham	86
2	Popley East	82
3	Eastrop	74
4	Buckskin	70
5	Winklebury	70
6	Brookvale and Kings Furlong	69
7	Norden	66
8	Popley West	58
9	Rooksdown	57
10	Sherborne St John	45
11	Chineham	34

Which road in Sherborne St John has the highest level of crime?

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