Crime in Bournemouth
Thinking about Bournemouth? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Bournemouth, Dorset, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try southampton, exeter, bath too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Bournemouth centre
721crimes recorded in May 2026
- Anti-social behaviour 230
- Violence & sexual offences 220
- Public order 48
- Shoplifting 41
- 10 other categories 182
Every category
- Anti-social behaviour230
- Violence & sexual offences220
- Public order48
- Shoplifting41
- Criminal damage & arson38
- Drugs38
- Vehicle crime34
- Other theft28
- Burglary16
- Robbery13
- Bicycle theft5
- Possession of weapons5
- Theft from the person3
- Other crime2
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Bournemouth. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Bournemouth a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Bournemouth for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Bournemouth crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Bournemouth?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Bournemouth. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.