Crime Statistics for Cosham, Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth, 2024

There were a total of 250 street level crime incidents in Cosham in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cosham, 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	107
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Shoplifting	19
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Other Theft	17
Vehicle Crime	16
Public Order	15
Drugs	9
Possession Of Weapons	5
Robbery	3
Burglary	3
Theft From The Person	3
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	250

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 Cosham. 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 Cosham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Baffins (2.49 miles)	658
Copnor (1.86 miles)	453
Cosham	250
Highbury (0.62 miles)	212
Drayton (0.62 miles)	158
Paulsgrove (1.96 miles)	146
Bedhampton (2.56 miles)	128
Anchorage Park (1.39 miles)	121
Tipner (2.24 miles)	56
Farlington (1.24 miles)	49

Where are the most violent places near Cosham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Baffins	331
Copnor	232
Cosham	107
Highbury	98
Drayton	68
Paulsgrove	58
Anchorage Park	55
Bedhampton	36
Tipner	27
Farlington	22

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

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 Cosham 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 Cosham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cosham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Cosham is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Nelson	88
2	Fratton	87
3	Paulsgrove	75
4	Hilsea	70
5	Baffins	70
6	Cosham	61
7	Milton	59
8	Stakes	57
9	Copnor	50
10	Purbrook	40
11	Drayton and Farlington	28

Which road in Cosham has the highest level of crime?

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