Crime Statistics for Lower Swanwick, Fareham, Hampshire, 2025

Is Lower Swanwick rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 56 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 Lower Swanwick, 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	18
Shoplifting	14
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Vehicle Crime	5
Other Theft	4
Burglary	3
Public Order	3
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	56

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 Lower Swanwick. 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 Lower Swanwick

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Netley Hill (1.75 miles)	224
Locks Heath (1.76 miles)	80
Curbridge (2.24 miles)	78
Park Gate (1.39 miles)	76
Lower Swanwick	51
Bursledon (0.62 miles)	50
Hedge End (1.86 miles)	40
Butlocks Heath (1.96 miles)	40
Burridge (1.39 miles)	38
Warsash (1.86 miles)	20

Where are the most violent places near Lower Swanwick?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Netley Hill	102
Curbridge	88
Bursledon	45
Park Gate	37
Locks Heath	29
Hedge End	23
Butlocks Heath	22
Lower Swanwick	18
Burridge	18
Warsash	10

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

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 Lower Swanwick 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 Lower Swanwick compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Woolston	88
2	Bursledon & Hound North	76
3	Sholing	73
4	Hamble & Netley	48
5	Hedge End South	37
6	Park Gate	31
7	Locks Heath	27
8	Sarisbury	27
9	Warsash	20
10	Titchfield Common	20
11	Whiteley and Shedfield	16

Which road in Lower Swanwick has the highest level of crime?

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