Crime Statistics for Southwood, Rushmoor, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southwood in September 2024. There were a total of 98 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 Southwood, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime48
Public Order12
Anti Social Behaviour12
Shoplifting10
Vehicle Crime6
Criminal Damage Arson6
Other Crime2
Other Theft2
All Crime98

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fox Lane (1.39 miles)361
Farnborough Park (1.86 miles)301
Farnborough Street (1.96 miles)265
Farnborough Green (2.24 miles)174
Farnborough (1.96 miles)161
South Farnborough (1.96 miles)141
Frimley Green (2.56 miles)121
Rafborough (0.62 miles)98
Southwood89
Pondtail (1.39 miles)56

15.75%
of Cove and Southwood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Southwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Fox Lane128
Farnborough Park128
Farnborough Green85
Farnborough78
Farnborough Street74
Southwood48
South Farnborough39
Rafborough36
Frimley Green33
Pondtail21

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

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 Southwood 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 Southwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Cherrywood73
2West Heath61
3Empress54
4Cove and Southwood52
5Fernhill50
6Hartley Wintney47
7St John's41
8Blackwater and Hawley34
9Knellwood29
10Fleet East13
11Crookham East11

Which road in Southwood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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