Puddletown & Lower Winterborne
WardEast Dorset. About 5,605 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 102 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 94% of people in Puddletown & Lower Winterborne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Puddletown & Lower Winterborne compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Puddletown & Lower Winterborne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Puddletown & Lower Winterborne at a rate of 25.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 53.9 per 1,000 people across Dorset.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 18 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Puddletown & Lower Winterborne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (67), anti-social behaviour (41) and other crime (30).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Dorset
These figures are published for the whole of Dorset, not for each ward, so they describe all of Dorset and not Puddletown & Lower Winterborne alone. See Dorset
Puddletown & Lower Winterborne in brief
Puddletown & Lower Winterborne had 5,492 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Puddletown & Lower Winterborne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Puddletown & Lower Winterborne, 36.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Puddletown & Lower Winterborne, 1.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.