Crime Statistics for Hardley, New Forest, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hardley in August 2024. There were a total of 41 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 Hardley, 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	26
Public Order	6
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Shoplifting	1
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	41

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 Hardley. 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 Hardley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fawley (1.39 miles)	111
Langdown (1.39 miles)	68
Holbury (0.62 miles)	58
Frostlane (1.24 miles)	58
Little Holbury (0.62 miles)	44
Hardley	41
Buttsash (0.88 miles)	37
Blackfield (1.96 miles)	23
Ashlett (1.96 miles)	19
Stonehills (2.24 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Hardley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fawley	40
Little Holbury	36
Langdown	34
Frostlane	30
Holbury	26
Hardley	26
Buttsash	15
Ashlett	13
Stonehills	7
Blackfield	5

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

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 Hardley 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 Hardley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hardley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hardley is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Woolston	88
2	Bargate	83
3	Bursledon & Hound North	76
4	Holbury and North Blackfield	50
5	Dibden and Hythe East	50
6	Hamble & Netley	48
7	Furzedown and Hardley	46
8	Butts Ash and Dibden Purlieu	33
9	Marchwood	27
10	Fawley, Blackfield and Langley	26
11	Hythe West and Langdown	24

Which road in Hardley has the highest level of crime?

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