Crime Statistics for Highfield, Southampton, City of Southampton, 2025

Is Highfield rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 512 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Highfield, 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	219
Public Order	48
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Shoplifting	36
Other Theft	33
Burglary	33
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Vehicle Crime	26
Drugs	18
Bicycle Theft	8
Theft From The Person	8
Possession Of Weapons	6
Other Crime	4
Robbery	3
All Crime	512

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 Highfield. 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 Highfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shirley (1.39 miles)	659
Bitterne Park (1.24 miles)	552
Highfield	512
Hampton Park (0.88 miles)	496
Portswood (0.62 miles)	491
Freemantle (1.76 miles)	401
Townhill Park (1.86 miles)	387
Lordswood (1.39 miles)	239
Bassett Green (1.24 miles)	140
Bassett (1.39 miles)	109

Where are the most violent places near Highfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shirley	286
Hampton Park	242
Bitterne Park	237
Highfield	219
Townhill Park	218
Portswood	208
Lordswood	181
Freemantle	169
Bassett Green	64
Bassett	44

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

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 Highfield 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 Highfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Harefield	85
3	Freemantle	85
4	Bargate	83
5	Shirley	81
6	Peartree	80
7	Swaythling	78
8	Coxford	77
9	Bitterne Park	72
10	Portswood	69
11	Bassett	56

Which road in Highfield has the highest level of crime?

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