Crime Statistics for Portswood, Southampton, City of Southampton, 2024

There were a total of 500 street level crime incidents in Portswood in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Portswood, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	195
Vehicle Crime	56
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Other Theft	42
Criminal Damage Arson	39
Burglary	28
Public Order	25
Shoplifting	25
Drugs	14
Possession Of Weapons	12
Bicycle Theft	9
Robbery	5
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	500

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Portswood. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Portswood

We've taken the ten nearest places to Portswood and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Portswood has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Peartree Green (1.86 miles)	580
Highfield (0.62 miles)	558
Portswood	500
Sholing Common (1.76 miles)	350
Bitterne Park (0.62 miles)	334
Hampton Park (0.62 miles)	326
Bitterne (1.39 miles)	324
Townhill Park (1.24 miles)	277
Bassett Green (1.39 miles)	136
Bassett (1.75 miles)	129

Where are the most violent places near Portswood?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Portswood and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Highfield	221
Peartree Green	202
Portswood	195
Sholing Common	143
Bitterne	131
Hampton Park	127
Bitterne Park	119
Townhill Park	103
Bassett Green	56
Bassett	51

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Portswood?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Portswood to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Portswood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Portswood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Portswood is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Harefield	85
3	Bargate	83
4	Shirley	81
5	Peartree	80
6	Swaythling	78
7	Bitterne Park	72
8	Portswood	69
9	West End South	68
10	Bassett	56
11	West End North	44

Which road in Portswood has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Portswood with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Winn Road.