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
850crimes recorded in July 2026
- Anti-social behaviour 270
- Violence & sexual offences 247
- Shoplifting 60
- Drugs 55
- 10 other categories 218
Every category
- Anti-social behaviour270
- Violence & sexual offences247
- Shoplifting60
- Drugs55
- Public order49
- Other theft48
- Vehicle crime29
- Criminal damage & arson26
- Burglary18
- Robbery15
- Other crime10
- Possession of weapons8
- Theft from the person8
- Bicycle theft7
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.