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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 35,917 street-crime records for the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 89.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 73.1 for Dorset Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
35,917
Latest month (August 2026)
3,617
Year-on-year
+6.9%
Month-by-month totals
3,9750
2.7k
Sep
2.7k
Oct
2.5k
Nov
2.7k
Dec
2.6k
Jan
2.8k
Feb
2.9k
Mar
2.9k
Apr
3.4k
May
3.3k
Jun
4.0k
Jul
3.6k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,655
October 2025
2,695
November 2025
2,547
December 2025
2,653
January 2026
2,551
February 2026
2,754
March 2026
2,877
April 2026
2,920
May 2026
3,377
June 2026
3,296
July 2026
3,975
August 2026
3,617
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area
89.7
Dorset Police
73.1
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
35,917 records and 400,227 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences30.9%
11,112 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour26.4%
9,469 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting8.8%
3,169 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.9%
2,492 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Vehicle crime6.1%
2,191 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Other theft5.9%
2,135 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order4.9%
1,757 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary3.6%
1,292 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area
Records by part of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area: the west 11,884, the south-west 7,668, the east 4,726, the north-west 4,494, the centre 2,097, the south-east 1,943, the south 1,696, the north-east 1,135, the north 722.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000058), which can differ from the place people call Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.