Sherborne St John & Rooksdown · Basingstoke and Deane
Sherborne St John & Rooksdown: your neighbourhood
Sherborne St John & Rooksdown electoral ward · boundaries: May 2026. Every figure carries its own date.
What stands out here?
People aged 16+ with a degree or equivalent: 44.9% here, compared with 35.2% across Basingstoke and Deane (9.7 percentage points higher).
Qualifications show local skills, not whether people have secure jobs or use those skills at work.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
People aged 65 or over: 7.9% here, compared with 17.3% across Basingstoke and Deane (9.4 percentage points lower).
Age helps locate demand for accessible homes, transport and support. Being older does not itself mean someone needs care.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
People aged 16+ with no qualifications: 8.4% here, compared with 14.2% across Basingstoke and Deane (5.8 percentage points lower).
Formal qualifications are only one part of someone's skills. Training decisions also need current vacancies, employment and residents' experience.
21 March 2021 · ward and council use the same source, measure and date.
Why this comparison is valid
The difference is in percentage points. The wider figure is the published council total, not the average of its wards. Differences describe groups, not every resident.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
Residents aged 16+ not working because of long-term illness or disability
2.3%
21 March 2021 · Sherborne St John & Rooksdown
Show the workings
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly. Unemployed residents as a share of all residents aged 16+; this is not the unemployment rate among economically active people.
Police-recorded locations for Sherborne St John & Rooksdown ward. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
898 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 963 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
Sherborne St John & Rooksdown ward · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 63 mapped crimes in September 2024; 80 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · Sherborne St John & Rooksdown
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
63
7
October 2024
79
6
November 2024
103
6
December 2024
75
5
January 2025
76
5
February 2025
79
4
March 2025
69
8
April 2025
75
11
May 2025
119
7
June 2025
65
4
July 2025
77
13
August 2025
83
0
September 2025
76
11
October 2025
68
10
November 2025
76
12
December 2025
83
7
January 2026
80
4
February 2026
44
6
March 2026
75
6
April 2026
83
12
May 2026
74
19
June 2026
79
8
July 2026
80
12
August 2026
80
14
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · Sherborne St John & Rooksdown
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
484
public order
122
criminal damage arson
79
other theft
68
shoplifting
48
burglary
27
drugs
23
other crime
16
vehicle crime
13
possession of weapons
9
bicycle theft
5
robbery
4
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and records without usable locations are excluded.
Do not compare directly with Scottish council-level recorded crime totals.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
A project elsewhere in the borough may matter here, but its location does not prove who benefits. Only verified ward associations are attached to a neighbourhood.
