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

There were a total of 324 street level crime incidents in Bitterne 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 Bitterne, 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	131
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Public Order	28
Vehicle Crime	26
Shoplifting	22
Burglary	22
Other Theft	20
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Drugs	8
Other Crime	8
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	324

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 Bitterne. 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 Bitterne

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Portswood (1.39 miles)	500
Sholing Common (0.62 miles)	350
Bitterne Park (0.88 miles)	334
Bitterne	324
Sholing (1.24 miles)	323
Itchen (1.39 miles)	320
Harefield (0.62 miles)	312
Townhill Park (0.62 miles)	277
Hatch Bottom (1.39 miles)	167
Moorgreen (1.75 miles)	78

Where are the most violent places near Bitterne?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Portswood	195
Sholing	160
Sholing Common	143
Itchen	137
Bitterne	131
Harefield	128
Bitterne Park	119
Townhill Park	103
Hatch Bottom	56
Moorgreen	28

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

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 Bitterne 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 Bitterne compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bitterne and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Bitterne is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Woolston	88
3	Bitterne	87
4	Harefield	85
5	Peartree	80
6	Bursledon & Hound North	76
7	Sholing	73
8	Bitterne Park	72
9	Portswood	69
10	West End South	68
11	West End North	44

Which road in Bitterne has the highest level of crime?

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