Crime Statistics for Lower Hamworthy, Poole, Poole, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Hamworthy in August 2024. There were a total of 662 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	212
Violent Crime	195
Other Theft	48
Shoplifting	48
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Vehicle Crime	32
Burglary	32
Public Order	24
Drugs	12
Theft From The Person	8
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	662

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower 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 Lower Hamworthy

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Hamworthy	332
Oakdale (1.75 miles)	255
Longfleet (0.88 miles)	249
Parkstone (1.96 miles)	179
Canford Heath (2.78 miles)	149
Waterloo (2.56 miles)	112
Creekmoor	110
Hamworthy (0.88 miles)	109
Turlin Moor (1.39 miles)	99
Lake	29

Where are the most violent places near Lower Hamworthy?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Hamworthy	195
Oakdale	74
Longfleet	67
Creekmoor	51
Parkstone	50
Hamworthy	45
Canford Heath	43
Turlin Moor	39
Waterloo	33
Lake	14

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lower 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 Lower 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 Lower Hamworthy compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Hamworthy and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Hamworthy is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newtown & Heatherlands	55
2	Poole Town	47
3	Hamworthy	40
4	Parkstone	32
5	Lytchett Matravers & Upton	30
6	Oakdale	29
7	Canford Heath	26
8	South East Purbeck	24
9	Wareham	24
10	Creekmoor	20
11	Broadstone	8

Which road in Lower Hamworthy has the highest level of crime?

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