North Dorset

England · E14001388

3,923 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
3,923
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
1,493 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

427/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising1,49338.1%
Anti-social behaviourrising83421.3%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling3488.9%
Other theftfalling2616.7%
Burglaryrising2275.8%
Shopliftingfalling2125.4%
Public orderfalling1975.0%
Vehicle crimefalling1644.2%
Other crimefalling721.8%
Drugsrising521.3%
Possession of weaponsfalling230.6%
Robberyrising190.5%
Bicycle theftfalling110.3%
Theft from the personfalling100.3%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.