Crime Statistics for Sholing Common, Southampton, City of Southampton, 2025

Is Sholing Common rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 311 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sholing Common, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime133
Public Order31
Shoplifting28
Criminal Damage Arson25
Other Theft20
Vehicle Crime20
Anti Social Behaviour16
Burglary14
Other Crime11
Drugs8
Possession Of Weapons3
Bicycle Theft1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime311

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 Sholing Common. 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 Sholing Common

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Peartree Green (1.39 miles)781
Portswood (1.76 miles)491
Bitterne (0.62 miles)438
Bitterne Park (1.39 miles)382
Sholing (0.62 miles)327
Netley Hill (1.39 miles)312
Sholing Common311
Harefield (0.88 miles)297
Itchen (0.88 miles)287
Townhill Park (1.24 miles)279

15.78%
of Woolston residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sholing Common?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Peartree Green314
Bitterne221
Portswood208
Netley Hill171
Bitterne Park157
Sholing139
Sholing Common133
Harefield131
Townhill Park118
Itchen117

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

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 Sholing Common 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 Sholing Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sholing Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sholing Common is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Bevois92
2Woolston88
3Bitterne87
4Harefield85
5Bargate83
6Peartree80
7Bursledon & Hound North76
8Sholing73
9Bitterne Park72
10West End South68
11Hedge End South37

Which road in Sholing Common has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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