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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hampton Park in October 2024. There were a total of 1642 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 Hampton 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	599
Shoplifting	176
Vehicle Crime	144
Public Order	116
Anti Social Behaviour	104
Burglary	100
Criminal Damage Arson	100
Drugs	92
Other Theft	84
Bicycle Theft	56
Robbery	28
Possession Of Weapons	16
Other Crime	15
Theft From The Person	12
All Crime	1642

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 Hampton 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 Hampton Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hampton Park	830
Portswood (0.62 miles)	541
Lordswood (1.86 miles)	455
Bitterne Park (0.88 miles)	445
Highfield (0.88 miles)	444
Bitterne (1.76 miles)	301
Townhill Park (1.39 miles)	296
Bassett (1.39 miles)	207
North Stoneham (1.24 miles)	160
Bassett Green (0.88 miles)	142

Where are the most violent places near Hampton Park?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Hampton 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
Portswood	192
Lordswood	162
Bitterne Park	148
Bitterne	124
Townhill Park	121
Bassett	100
North Stoneham	75
Bassett Green	63

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Hampton 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 Hampton 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 Hampton Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hampton Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hampton Park is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Harefield	85
3	Shirley	81
4	Peartree	80
5	Swaythling	78
6	Bitterne Park	72
7	Portswood	69
8	West End South	68
9	Eastleigh South	66
10	Bassett	56
11	West End North	44

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

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