Crime Statistics for Bourne Valley, Penn Hill, Poole, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bourne Valley in October 2024. There were a total of 246 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bourne Valley, 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	83
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Vehicle Crime	28
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Public Order	18
Burglary	13
Shoplifting	12
Other Theft	11
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	3
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	246

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 Bourne Valley. 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 Bourne Valley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Talbot Heath	411
Alderney (1.39 miles)	373
Wallisdown (0.62 miles)	286
Bourne Valley	246
Red Hill (1.76 miles)	246
Turbary Common (0.88 miles)	243
Talbot Woods (0.88 miles)	240
West Howe (1.39 miles)	227
Talbot Village (0.88 miles)	219
Ensbury Park (0.88 miles)	219

Where are the most violent places near Bourne Valley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Talbot Heath	149
Alderney	136
Wallisdown	104
Talbot Woods	104
Bourne Valley	83
Turbary Common	74
West Howe	74
Red Hill	72
Talbot Village	55
Ensbury Park	55

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

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 Bourne Valley 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 Bourne Valley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bourne Valley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bourne Valley is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kinson	61
2	Newtown & Heatherlands	55
3	Westbourne & West Cliff	54
4	Alderney & Bourne Valley	53
5	Talbot & Branksome Woods	53
6	Wallisdown & Winton West	45
7	Redhill & Northbourne	37
8	Penn Hill	36
9	Parkstone	32
10	Canford Cliffs	31
11	Bearwood & Merley	30

Which road in Bourne Valley has the highest level of crime?

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