Crime Statistics for Bitterne Park, Southampton, City of Southampton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bitterne Park in October 2024. There were a total of 445 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 Bitterne Park, 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	148
Shoplifting	52
Public Order	40
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Vehicle Crime	34
Burglary	28
Other Theft	27
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Drugs	21
Robbery	10
Bicycle Theft	10
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	445

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 Bitterne Park. 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 Bitterne Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hampton Park (0.88 miles)	830
Portswood (0.62 miles)	541
Bitterne Park	445
Highfield (1.24 miles)	444
Bitterne (0.88 miles)	301
Townhill Park (0.62 miles)	296
Sholing Common (1.39 miles)	285
Harefield (1.39 miles)	270
Hatch Bottom (1.86 miles)	171
Bassett Green (1.75 miles)	142

Where are the most violent places near Bitterne Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hampton Park	599
Highfield	334
Harefield	232
Portswood	192
Bitterne Park	148
Sholing Common	139
Bitterne	124
Townhill Park	121
Hatch Bottom	76
Bassett Green	63

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

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 Bitterne Park 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 Bitterne Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bitterne Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bitterne Park is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Bitterne	87
3	Harefield	85
4	Shirley	81
5	Peartree	80
6	Swaythling	78
7	Sholing	73
8	Bitterne Park	72
9	Portswood	69
10	West End South	68
11	West End North	44

Which road in Bitterne Park has the highest level of crime?

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