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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bitterne in October 2024. There were a total of 301 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, 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	124
Shoplifting	28
Public Order	27
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Vehicle Crime	21
Other Theft	21
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Drugs	8
Burglary	8
Other Crime	7
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	301

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. 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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Portswood (1.39 miles)	541
Bitterne Park (0.88 miles)	445
Bitterne	301
Townhill Park (0.62 miles)	296
Sholing Common (0.62 miles)	285
Itchen (1.39 miles)	276
Harefield (0.62 miles)	270
Sholing (1.24 miles)	231
Hatch Bottom (1.39 miles)	171
Moorgreen (1.75 miles)	81

Where are the most violent places near Bitterne?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harefield	232
Portswood	192
Sholing	172
Bitterne Park	148
Sholing Common	139
Bitterne	124
Itchen	124
Townhill Park	121
Hatch Bottom	76
Moorgreen	31

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Woolston	88
3	Bitterne	87
4	Harefield	85
5	Peartree	80
6	Bursledon & Hound North	76
7	Sholing	73
8	Bitterne Park	72
9	Portswood	69
10	West End South	68
11	West End North	44

Which road in Bitterne has the highest level of crime?

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