Alington Road (BH14) has been identified as one of the most expensive streets in the Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole area, with average asking prices around £3.4 million. Other top-tier, high-value locations in the vicinity include Branksome Dene Road (£1.1M+) and East Avenue.
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Leven Avenue was found to be the most expensive street in the area, with three properties selling for an average of £2,090,000. Silver Glade was runner up, with three properties selling for an average of £1.5 million in the same timeframe.
Bournemouth is generally a safe place to live, but some neighbourhoods have particularly low crime rates. Areas like Westbourne, Southbourne, and Alum Chine consistently rank highly for safety and community spirit.
Between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, the non-British-born population in Bournemouth's local authority went up by 47%, and UK net migration has continued to rise significantly since then.
The highest levels of deprivation are found around Townsend, Boscombe, East Cliff and Springbourne, and around Central Bournemouth. A further 18 LSOAs are amongst the worst 40% deprived. 37% of its population live in the 20% most deprived areas of BCP.
Bournemouth's current crime levels are at 74% of the national crime rate. Violent crime makes up 32.8% of all crimes reported in the postcode area. The total number of "violent crime" is 14.4k, and this number has decreased by 7.7% when compared year-over-year in the period of December 2024 - November 2025.
Harrogate tops the list with a crime index of 17.44, making it the safest town or city in the UK according to that analysis. This elegant North Yorkshire spa town combines affluent residential neighbourhoods, strong local employment and a busy tourism sector with relatively low levels of violent and property crime.
93.1% people are white, 2.7% people are asian, 2.3% people are mixed. 48.6% are Christian, 41.4% have no religion, 6.7% provided no answer. 41.9% households have 1 car, 29.6% households have 2 cars, 16.8% households have no car.
Dorset Police received a report at 7.29pm on Monday 30 June 2025 of a disturbance involving a large group of people in the area of Pier Approach. A number of police officers were injured during the incident, as well as a teenage girl who was taken to hospital for treatment. Their injuries sustained were not serious.
Comparing Dorset's larger towns and cities, and using Crime Risk Scores - which are calculated by taking severity of each crime type into account - Weymouth is the most dangerous. The next most dangerous is Bournemouth, and Poole comes in as third most dangerous.
About. Thousands of Jews live in Bournemouth and the surrounding areas. Amongst them, many are unaffiliated whose souls thirst for a true understanding of their identity.
In total, London and the counties around it are host to 70.56% of England and Wales' Jewish population, as of 2021. The next most significant population is in Greater Manchester, a community of more than 28,000, mostly in Bury (10,730), Salford (10,370), Manchester (2,630), and Trafford (2,410).
