Crime Statistics for Hardway, Gosport, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hardway in September 2024. There were a total of 260 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hardway, 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	117
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Public Order	24
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Other Theft	18
Burglary	14
Vehicle Crime	11
Shoplifting	10
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Drugs	3
Robbery	1
All Crime	260

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Landport (2.48 miles)	1424
Portsea (1.96 miles)	516
Brockhurst (0.62 miles)	260
Hardway	260
Bridgemary (1.75 miles)	255
Ann’s Hill (0.88 miles)	190
Rowner (1.24 miles)	131
Peel Common (1.96 miles)	129
Alverstoke (1.36 miles)	92
Tipner (2.24 miles)	41

Where are the most violent places near Hardway?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Landport	614
Portsea	369
Bridgemary	150
Rowner	135
Brockhurst	119
Hardway	117
Ann’s Hill	73
Peel Common	71
Alverstoke	31
Tipner	22

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

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 Hardway 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 Hardway compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Grange	92
2	Town	90
3	Rowner and Holbrook	79
4	Leesland	73
5	Bridgemary South	72
6	Brockhurst	70
7	Forton	69
8	Christchurch	63
9	Elson	56
10	Hardway	53
11	Privett	52

Which road in Hardway has the highest level of crime?

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