Crime Statistics for Itchen, Eastleigh, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Itchen in September 2024. There were a total of 139 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Itchen, 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	54
Shoplifting	25
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Other Theft	8
Public Order	7
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Vehicle Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	139

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 Itchen. 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 Itchen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Boyatt Wood (1.49 miles)	302
Bishopstoke (0.61 miles)	180
Fryern Hill (1.49 miles)	168
Itchen	139
Allbrook (1.1 miles)	110
Stoke Common (0.38 miles)	52
Crowdhill (1.61 miles)	50
Fisher’s Pond (0.99 miles)	45
Colden Common (1.36 miles)	27
Highbridge (0.78 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Itchen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Boyatt Wood	144
Fryern Hill	76
Bishopstoke	68
Itchen	54
Allbrook	50
Stoke Common	24
Crowdhill	18
Fisher’s Pond	18
Colden Common	11
Highbridge	11

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

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 Itchen 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 Itchen compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Itchen and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Itchen is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Swaythling	78
2	West End South	68
3	Eastleigh Central	67
4	Eastleigh South	66
5	Eastleigh North	45
6	West End North	44
7	Bishopstoke	31
8	Chandler's Ford	20
9	Colden Common and Twyford	16
10	Hiltingbury	13
11	Valley Park	4

Which road in Itchen has the highest level of crime?

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