Lytchett Matravers & Upton
WardEast Dorset. About 12,921 people in 43 square kilometres.
Gigabit coverage by ward
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Lytchett Matravers & Upton, 84.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Lytchett Matravers & Upton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lytchett Matravers & Upton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lytchett Matravers & Upton at a rate of 38.3 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, 44 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lytchett Matravers & Upton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (189), anti-social behaviour (100) and other crime (68).
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 Lytchett Matravers & Upton alone. See Dorset
Lytchett Matravers & Upton in brief
Lytchett Matravers & Upton had 12,536 usual residents at the census.
In Lytchett Matravers & Upton, 84.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Lytchett Matravers & Upton, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.
58.2% of residents in Lytchett Matravers & Upton were aged 15 to 64 at the census.