Stour & Allen Vale
WardEast Dorset. About 5,125 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 100 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 32% of people in Stour & Allen Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stour & Allen Vale compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Stour & Allen Vale safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stour & Allen Vale at a rate of 36.9 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, 17 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stour & Allen Vale.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (63), anti-social behaviour (49) and other crime (31).
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 Stour & Allen Vale alone. See Dorset
Stour & Allen Vale in brief
Stour & Allen Vale had 4,962 usual residents at the census.
About 32% of people in Stour & Allen Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stour & Allen Vale, 79.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Stour & Allen Vale, 2.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.