West Moors
TownTown in Dorset, South West.
West Moors is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for West Moors add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in West Moors live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How West Moors compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is West Moors safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in West Moors at a rate of 47.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 60 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in West Moors.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (157), violence and sexual offences (154) and other crime (66).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in West Moors was 48.3 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in West Moors, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so West Moors has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in West Moors
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset 016A | 1,315 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.2% |
| Dorset 016B | 1,621 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 66.5% |
| Dorset 016C | 1,453 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.7% |
| Dorset 016D | 1,383 | 13.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Dorset 016E | 1,631 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 64.6% |
| Dorset 018D | 1,524 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.8% |
| Dorset 018E | 1,719 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 74.4% |
Your MP
- Sir Christopher ChopeConservativeMP for Christchurch
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering West Moors1
Middle areas in West Moors1
Towns near West Moors6
West Moors in brief
West Moors is a town in Dorset, South West.
About 10,258 people lived in West Moors in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £375,000 in 2025 across 189 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 47.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in West Moors was £375,000 in 2025.
West Moors had 10,432 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in West Moors live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In West Moors, 78.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.