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

There were a total of 451 street level crime incidents in Shirley 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 Shirley, 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	175
Shoplifting	48
Public Order	43
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Other Theft	29
Vehicle Crime	24
Burglary	22
Drugs	19
Bicycle Theft	7
Possession Of Weapons	6
Other Crime	5
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	451

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 Shirley. 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 Shirley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Highfield (1.39 miles)	558
Aldermoor (1.39 miles)	497
Shirley Warren (0.88 miles)	484
Shirley	451
Lord’s Hill (1.75 miles)	371
Lordswood (1.24 miles)	351
Freemantle (0.62 miles)	312
Maybush (1.39 miles)	305
Redbridge (1.72 miles)	279
Millbrook (1.24 miles)	207

Where are the most violent places near Shirley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aldermoor	242
Highfield	221
Shirley Warren	214
Lord’s Hill	188
Shirley	175
Maybush	147
Lordswood	143
Redbridge	123
Freemantle	117
Millbrook	100

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

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 Shirley 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 Shirley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Redbridge	94
2	Bevois	92
3	Millbrook	87
4	Freemantle	85
5	Bargate	83
6	Shirley	81
7	Coxford	77
8	Bitterne Park	72
9	Portswood	69
10	Bassett	56
11	Marchwood	27

Which road in Shirley has the highest level of crime?

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