Crime Statistics for Hamworthy, Poole, Poole, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hamworthy in September 2024. There were a total of 98 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 Hamworthy, 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	27
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	6
Burglary	6
Bicycle Theft	6
Public Order	3
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
Robbery	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	98

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 Hamworthy. 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 Hamworthy

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Oakdale (1.96 miles)	283
Longfleet	248
Lower Hamworthy (0.88 miles)	179
Parkstone	149
Waterloo (2.24 miles)	124
Creekmoor (1.39 miles)	110
Hamworthy	98
Turlin Moor	86
Beacon Hill (2.24 miles)	32
Lake (0.88 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Hamworthy?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Longfleet	117
Oakdale	90
Creekmoor	51
Parkstone	49
Lower Hamworthy	43
Waterloo	33
Hamworthy	27
Turlin Moor	25
Beacon Hill	15
Lake	3

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

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 Hamworthy 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 Hamworthy compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hamworthy and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hamworthy is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Poole Town	47
2	Hamworthy	40
3	Parkstone	32
4	Lytchett Matravers & Upton	30
5	Oakdale	29
6	Canford Heath	26
7	South East Purbeck	24
8	Wareham	24
9	Creekmoor	20
10	Broadstone	8
11	Corfe Mullen	7

Which road in Hamworthy has the highest level of crime?

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