Crime Statistics for South View, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South View in August 2024. There were a total of 354 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 South View, 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	114
Public Order	37
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Other Theft	31
Shoplifting	31
Vehicle Crime	26
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Burglary	15
Bicycle Theft	14
Drugs	13
Possession Of Weapons	7
Robbery	5
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	354

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Basingstoke	605
South Ham (1.39 miles)	393
Oakridge (0.62 miles)	355
South View	354
Popley (1.39 miles)	260
Cranbourne (1.24 miles)	251
Daneshill (1.39 miles)	241
Black Dam (0.88 miles)	164
Buckskin (1.96 miles)	95
Old Basing (1.86 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near South View?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Basingstoke	232
Oakridge	190
South Ham	172
South View	114
Popley	101
Black Dam	96
Cranbourne	73
Daneshill	71
Buckskin	45
Old Basing	12

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

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 South View 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 South View compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	South Ham	86
2	Eastrop	74
3	Buckskin	70
4	Winklebury	70
5	Brookvale and Kings Furlong	69
6	Norden	66
7	Popley West	58
8	Brighton Hill North	46
9	Brighton Hill South	45
10	Grove	32
11	Basing	19

Which road in South View has the highest level of crime?

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