Crime Statistics for Parkstone, Lilliput, Poole, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Parkstone in August 2024. There were a total of 179 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 Parkstone, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Other Theft	17
Public Order	16
Vehicle Crime	14
Shoplifting	13
Burglary	12
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Drugs	5
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	179

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 Parkstone. 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 Parkstone

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wallisdown (1.75 miles)	424
Alderney (1.96 miles)	357
Lower Hamworthy (1.96 miles)	332
Oakdale (0.88 miles)	255
Longfleet	249
Bourne Valley (2.24 miles)	214
Talbot Heath (2.24 miles)	214
Parkstone	179
Canford Heath (1.96 miles)	149
Canford Cliffs (1.76 miles)	25

Where are the most violent places near Parkstone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Hamworthy	195
Wallisdown	152
Alderney	137
Oakdale	74
Bourne Valley	73
Longfleet	67
Talbot Heath	66
Parkstone	50
Canford Heath	43
Canford Cliffs	3

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

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 Parkstone 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 Parkstone compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Parkstone and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Parkstone is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newtown & Heatherlands	55
2	Westbourne & West Cliff	54
3	Talbot & Branksome Woods	53
4	Poole Town	47
5	Hamworthy	40
6	Penn Hill	36
7	Parkstone	32
8	Canford Cliffs	31
9	Oakdale	29
10	Canford Heath	26
11	South East Purbeck	24

Which road in Parkstone has the highest level of crime?

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