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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Freemantle in September 2024. There were a total of 505 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 Freemantle, 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	213
Shoplifting	48
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Public Order	42
Other Theft	34
Drugs	27
Vehicle Crime	26
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Possession Of Weapons	13
Burglary	13
Robbery	8
Other Crime	7
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	505

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lordswood (1.86 miles)	792
Shirley Warren (1.39 miles)	577
Highfield (1.76 miles)	531
Shirley (0.62 miles)	510
Freemantle	441
Peartree Green (1.96 miles)	407
Maybush (1.76 miles)	343
Millbrook (1.39 miles)	214
Aldermoor (1.96 miles)	106
Marchwood (1.75 miles)	17

Where are the most violent places near Freemantle?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lordswood	326
Peartree Green	255
Shirley Warren	233
Freemantle	213
Highfield	207
Shirley	197
Millbrook	161
Maybush	154
Aldermoor	95
Marchwood	10

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

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 Freemantle 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 Freemantle compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Redbridge	94
2	Bevois	92
3	Millbrook	87
4	Freemantle	85
5	Bargate	83
6	Shirley	81
7	Coxford	77
8	Bitterne Park	72
9	Bassett	56
10	Dibden and Hythe East	50
11	Marchwood	27

Which road in Freemantle has the highest level of crime?

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