West Dorset
England · E14001575
4,693 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
4,693
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
1,674 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
549/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesfalling | 1,674 | 35.7% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 1,191 | 25.4% |
| Shopliftingfalling | 408 | 8.7% |
| Other theftfalling | 324 | 6.9% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 312 | 6.6% |
| Public orderfalling | 235 | 5.0% |
| Burglaryfalling | 178 | 3.8% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 171 | 3.6% |
| Drugsrising | 78 | 1.7% |
| Other crimefalling | 48 | 1.0% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 25 | 0.5% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 19 | 0.4% |
| Robberyfalling | 18 | 0.4% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 12 | 0.3% |
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· Hide
- 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.