Crime Statistics for South Ham, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Ham in October 2024. There were a total of 228 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 South Ham, 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	101
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Public Order	15
Burglary	11
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Shoplifting	8
Other Crime	8
Drugs	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	228

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Oakridge (1.75 miles)	683
South View (1.39 miles)	626
Basingstoke (1.39 miles)	416
Black Dam (1.86 miles)	240
South Ham	228
Buckskin (0.62 miles)	101
Brighton Hill (1.39 miles)	78
Kempshott (0.88 miles)	78
Cranbourne (1.39 miles)	76
Newfound (1.86 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near South Ham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Oakridge	324
South View	290
Basingstoke	163
South Ham	101
Black Dam	96
Cranbourne	85
Buckskin	46
Brighton Hill	41
Kempshott	34
Newfound	2

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

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 South Ham 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 South Ham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Ham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Ham is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	South Ham	86
2	Buckskin	70
3	Winklebury	70
4	Brookvale and Kings Furlong	69
5	Norden	66
6	Popley West	58
7	Brighton Hill North	46
8	Brighton Hill South	45
9	Sherborne St John	45
10	Grove	32
11	Kempshott	24

Which road in South Ham has the highest level of crime?

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