Crime Statistics for Highbury, Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highbury in October 2024. There were a total of 268 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Highbury, 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	113
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Other Theft	22
Vehicle Crime	18
Public Order	17
Shoplifting	17
Drugs	12
Burglary	10
Bicycle Theft	3
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	268

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Portsmouth (1.96 miles)	2266
Baffins (1.86 miles)	1360
Portsea Island (1.96 miles)	1157
Copnor (1.24 miles)	564
Cosham (0.62 miles)	322
Drayton (0.88 miles)	288
Highbury	268
Anchorage Park (0.88 miles)	137
Farlington (1.39 miles)	62
Tipner (1.96 miles)	56

Where are the most violent places near Highbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Portsmouth	878
Baffins	611
Portsea Island	461
Copnor	249
Cosham	141
Drayton	135
Highbury	113
Anchorage Park	89
Tipner	29
Farlington	22

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

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 Highbury 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 Highbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Charles Dickens	92
2	Nelson	88
3	Fratton	87
4	Hilsea	70
5	Baffins	70
6	Central Southsea	65
7	Cosham	61
8	Milton	59
9	Copnor	50
10	Purbrook	40
11	Drayton and Farlington	28

Which road in Highbury has the highest level of crime?

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