Crime Statistics for Ashington, Broadstone, Poole, Poole, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ashington in October 2024. There were a total of 78 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ashington, 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	28
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Shoplifting	12
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Other Theft	6
All Crime	78

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 Ashington. 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 Ashington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Colehill (1.75 miles)	91
Rushcombe Bottom (0.88 miles)	76
Broadstone	73
Ashington	40
Lambs Green	39
Corfe Mullen (1.39 miles)	31
Oakley	21
Canford Magna (1.86 miles)	12
Pamphill (1.39 miles)	7
Chilbridge (1.96 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Ashington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rushcombe Bottom	59
Broadstone	31
Ashington	28
Colehill	20
Lambs Green	17
Corfe Mullen	11
Oakley	7
Canford Magna	5
Pamphill	4
Chilbridge	4

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

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 Ashington 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 Ashington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Alderney & Bourne Valley	53
2	Wimborne Minster	44
3	Bearwood & Merley	30
4	Lytchett Matravers & Upton	30
5	Stour & Allen Vale	27
6	Canford Heath	26
7	Creekmoor	20
8	Colehill & Wimborne Minster East	14
9	Broadstone	8
10	Ferndown North	8
11	Corfe Mullen	7

Which road in Ashington has the highest level of crime?

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