Crime Statistics for Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth, 2025

Is Portsmouth rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1033 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Portsmouth, 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	421
Shoplifting	117
Public Order	91
Anti Social Behaviour	82
Other Theft	71
Criminal Damage Arson	63
Drugs	50
Vehicle Crime	46
Burglary	25
Other Crime	20
Possession Of Weapons	14
Bicycle Theft	12
Robbery	11
Theft From The Person	10
All Crime	1033

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Southsea (1.39 miles)	1104
Portsea Island	1033
Portsmouth	1033
Fratton (0.62 miles)	980
Landport (0.62 miles)	649
Baffins (0.62 miles)	539
Milton (1.39 miles)	423
Copnor (0.88 miles)	416
Portsea (1.39 miles)	404
Anchorage Park (1.76 miles)	120

Where are the most violent places near Portsmouth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Southsea	491
Portsea Island	421
Portsmouth	421
Landport	417
Fratton	398
Portsea	345
Baffins	215
Copnor	175
Milton	167
Anchorage Park	48

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

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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Portsmouth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Portsmouth is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Charles Dickens	92
2	St Jude	91
3	Nelson	88
4	Fratton	87
5	St Thomas	83
6	Eastney and Craneswater	77
7	Hilsea	70
8	Baffins	70
9	Central Southsea	65
10	Milton	59
11	Copnor	50

Which road in Portsmouth has the highest level of crime?

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