Crime Statistics for Peartree Green, Southampton, City of Southampton, 2024

There were a total of 580 street level crime incidents in Peartree Green in February 2024. 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 Peartree Green, 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	202
Shoplifting	100
Public Order	53
Anti Social Behaviour	53
Criminal Damage Arson	45
Other Theft	35
Drugs	24
Burglary	19
Vehicle Crime	18
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	7
Possession Of Weapons	6
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	580

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 Peartree Green. 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 Peartree Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Peartree Green	580
Highfield (1.96 miles)	558
Portswood (1.86 miles)	500
Sholing Common (1.39 miles)	350
Bitterne Park (1.96 miles)	334
Bitterne (1.76 miles)	324
Sholing (1.24 miles)	323
Itchen (0.62 miles)	320
Freemantle (1.96 miles)	312
Harefield (2.24 miles)	312

Where are the most violent places near Peartree Green?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Peartree Green 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	160
Sholing Common	143
Itchen	137
Bitterne	131
Harefield	128
Bitterne Park	119
Freemantle	117

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

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 Peartree Green 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 Peartree Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Woolston	88
3	Harefield	85
4	Freemantle	85
5	Bargate	83
6	Shirley	81
7	Peartree	80
8	Sholing	73
9	Bitterne Park	72
10	Portswood	69
11	Hythe West and Langdown	24

Which road in Peartree Green has the highest level of crime?

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