This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brook Waters in October 2024. There were no crime incidents in in this areas this month.
| Crime Category | Incidents |
|---|---|
| All Crime | 0 |
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 Brook Waters. 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 Brook Waters
We've taken the ten nearest places to Brook Waters and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Brook Waters has more crime than other surrounding areas.
| Location | Crime Incidents |
|---|---|
| Ivy Cross (3.1 miles) | 70 |
| Shaftesbury (3.16 miles) | 43 |
| Cann Common (2.24 miles) | 4 |
| Cann (2.77 miles) | 1 |
| Milkwell | 0 |
| Brook Waters | 0 |
| Donhead St Andrew (0.62 miles) | 0 |
| Donhead St Mary (0.88 miles) | 0 |
| Charlton (0.88 miles) | 0 |
| Birdbush | 0 |
of Shaftesbury Town residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census
Where are the most violent places near Brook Waters?
The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Brook Waters and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.
| Location | Violent Incidents |
|---|---|
| Ivy Cross | 18 |
| Shaftesbury | 10 |
| Cann Common | 0 |
| Cann | 0 |
| Milkwell | 0 |
| Brook Waters | 0 |
| Donhead St Andrew | 0 |
| Donhead St Mary | 0 |
| Charlton | 0 |
| Birdbush | 0 |
How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Brook Waters?
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 Brook Waters 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 Brook Waters compare to surrounding wards?
We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brook Waters and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Brook Waters have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Blackmore Vale.| # | Ward | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaftesbury Town | 28 |
| 2 | Mere | 28 |
| 3 | Tisbury | 27 |
| 4 | Beacon | 26 |
| 5 | Blandford | 25 |
| 6 | Till and Wylye Valley | 23 |
| 7 | Cranborne Chase | 17 |
| 8 | Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants | 15 |
| 9 | Gillingham | 12 |
| 10 | Sturminster Newton | 12 |
| 11 | Blackmore Vale | 11 |
Which road in Brook Waters has the highest level of crime?
We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Brook Waters with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.Information provided by data.police.uk
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