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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Portsea in October 2024. There were a total of 704 incidents. 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 Portsea, 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	241
Shoplifting	114
Anti Social Behaviour	76
Public Order	60
Other Theft	41
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Bicycle Theft	37
Drugs	32
Vehicle Crime	18
Burglary	16
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	7
Theft From The Person	5
Robbery	4
All Crime	704

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 Portsea. 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 Portsea

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Portsmouth (1.39 miles)	2266
Fratton (1.24 miles)	2176
Southsea (0.88 miles)	1543
Baffins (1.96 miles)	1360
Portsea Island (1.39 miles)	1157
Landport (0.88 miles)	968
Portsea	704
Milton (1.96 miles)	477
Hardway (1.96 miles)	329
Tipner (1.86 miles)	56

Where are the most violent places near Portsea?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Southsea	1105
Portsmouth	878
Fratton	868
Baffins	611
Portsea Island	461
Landport	446
Portsea	241
Milton	188
Hardway	149
Tipner	29

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

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 Portsea 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 Portsea compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Portsea and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Portsea is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Charles Dickens	92
2	St Jude	91
3	Town	90
4	Nelson	88
5	Fratton	87
6	St Thomas	83
7	Leesland	73
8	Central Southsea	65
9	Christchurch	63
10	Hardway	53
11	Anglesey	37

Which road in Portsea has the highest level of crime?

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