Crime Statistics for Townhill Park, Southampton, City of Southampton, 2025

Is Townhill Park rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 411 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 Townhill 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	218
Public Order	42
Shoplifting	30
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	18
Burglary	16
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Crime	15
Drugs	8
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	411

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 Townhill 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 Townhill Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bitterne Park (0.62 miles)	552
Highfield (1.86 miles)	512
Hampton Park (1.39 miles)	496
Portswood (1.24 miles)	491
Townhill Park	387
Sholing Common (1.24 miles)	311
Harefield (0.88 miles)	311
Bitterne (0.62 miles)	291
Hatch Bottom (1.24 miles)	110
Moorgreen (1.39 miles)	73

Where are the most violent places near Townhill Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hampton Park	242
Bitterne Park	237
Highfield	219
Townhill Park	218
Portswood	208
Bitterne	145
Harefield	142
Sholing Common	133
Hatch Bottom	46
Moorgreen	30

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

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bevois	92
2	Woolston	88
3	Bitterne	87
4	Harefield	85
5	Peartree	80
6	Swaythling	78
7	Sholing	73
8	Bitterne Park	72
9	Portswood	69
10	West End South	68
11	West End North	44

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

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