Crime Statistics for Canford Cliffs, Poole, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Canford Cliffs in September 2024. There were a total of 25 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Burglary	6
Other Theft	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Violent Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	25

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 Canford Cliffs. 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 Canford Cliffs

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bournemouth (2.24 miles)	1008
Talbot Woods (2.24 miles)	311
Oakdale (2.63 miles)	283
Longfleet (2.77 miles)	248
Wallisdown (2.49 miles)	242
Bourne Valley (2.56 miles)	214
Talbot Heath (2.56 miles)	214
Parkstone (1.76 miles)	149
Canford Cliffs	25
Sandbanks (1.39 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Canford Cliffs?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bournemouth	288
Longfleet	117
Oakdale	90
Wallisdown	78
Talbot Woods	76
Bourne Valley	73
Talbot Heath	69
Parkstone	49
Canford Cliffs	3
Sandbanks	0

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

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 Canford Cliffs 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 Canford Cliffs compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Canford Cliffs and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Canford Cliffs have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bournemouth Central.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bournemouth Central	85
2	Newtown & Heatherlands	55
3	Westbourne & West Cliff	54
4	Talbot & Branksome Woods	53
5	Poole Town	47
6	Hamworthy	40
7	Penn Hill	36
8	Parkstone	32
9	Canford Cliffs	31
10	Oakdale	29
11	South East Purbeck	24

Which road in Canford Cliffs has the highest level of crime?

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