Crime Statistics for Fareham, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fareham in August 2024. There were a total of 177 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 Fareham, 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	79
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	14
Vehicle Crime	12
Public Order	11
Burglary	9
Bicycle Theft	5
Drugs	4
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	177

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bridgemary (2.24 miles)	255
Wallington (1.24 miles)	193
Fareham	177
Heathfield (0.62 miles)	80
Funtley (1.24 miles)	67
Titchfield Park (1.96 miles)	58
Catisfield (1.24 miles)	42
Crockerhill (1.96 miles)	28
Titchfield (1.96 miles)	27
Little Posbrook (2.24 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Fareham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bridgemary	150
Wallington	81
Fareham	79
Heathfield	64
Funtley	38
Catisfield	26
Titchfield Park	22
Crockerhill	19
Titchfield	13
Little Posbrook	7

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

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 Fareham 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 Fareham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fareham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Fareham have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bridgemary North.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bridgemary North	58
2	Fareham South	56
3	Fareham East	51
4	Southwick and Wickham	46
5	Titchfield	35
6	Fareham North-West	34
7	Stubbington	33
8	Fareham North	22
9	Titchfield Common	20
10	Portchester West	18
11	Fareham West	14

Which road in Fareham has the highest level of crime?

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