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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highfield in September 2024. There were a total of 531 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Highfield, 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	207
Vehicle Crime	49
Burglary	47
Criminal Damage Arson	39
Public Order	38
Drugs	36
Other Theft	34
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Shoplifting	23
Bicycle Theft	11
Possession Of Weapons	7
Other Crime	6
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	2
All Crime	531

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 Highfield. 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 Highfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lordswood (1.39 miles)	792
Portswood (0.62 miles)	667
Highfield	531
Shirley (1.39 miles)	510
Freemantle (1.76 miles)	441
Hampton Park (0.88 miles)	355
Bitterne Park (1.24 miles)	345
Townhill Park (1.86 miles)	260
Bassett (1.39 miles)	160
Bassett Green (1.24 miles)	147

Where are the most violent places near Highfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lordswood	326
Portswood	291
Freemantle	213
Highfield	207
Shirley	197
Hampton Park	133
Bitterne Park	112
Townhill Park	97
Bassett	68
Bassett Green	68

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

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 Highfield 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 Highfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Harefield	85
3	Freemantle	85
4	Bargate	83
5	Shirley	81
6	Peartree	80
7	Swaythling	78
8	Coxford	77
9	Bitterne Park	72
10	Portswood	69
11	Bassett	56

Which road in Highfield has the highest level of crime?

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