Crime Statistics for Shirley Warren, Southampton, City of Southampton, 2025

Is Shirley Warren rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 512 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shirley Warren, 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	228
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Other Theft	37
Shoplifting	36
Public Order	35
Burglary	20
Vehicle Crime	19
Drugs	18
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	7
Theft From The Person	6
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	5
All Crime	512

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shirley (0.88 miles)	659
Shirley Warren	512
Maybush (0.62 miles)	437
Aldermoor (0.62 miles)	422
Freemantle (1.39 miles)	401
Lord’s Hill (0.88 miles)	339
Redbridge (1 miles)	319
Lordswood (0.88 miles)	239
Millbrook (0.88 miles)	196
Nursling (1.75 miles)	102

Where are the most violent places near Shirley Warren?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shirley	286
Shirley Warren	228
Maybush	189
Lordswood	181
Aldermoor	172
Freemantle	169
Lord’s Hill	141
Redbridge	132
Millbrook	75
Nursling	39

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

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 Shirley Warren 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 Shirley Warren compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shirley Warren and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shirley Warren is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Redbridge	94
2	Millbrook	87
3	Freemantle	85
4	Bargate	83
5	Shirley	81
6	Coxford	77
7	Totton East	74
8	Bitterne Park	72
9	Portswood	69
10	Bassett	56
11	Marchwood	27

Which road in Shirley Warren has the highest level of crime?

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