Crime Statistics for Testwood, Totton, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Testwood in October 2024. There were a total of 660 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 Testwood, 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	230
Shoplifting	88
Criminal Damage Arson	80
Vehicle Crime	64
Public Order	48
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Other Theft	32
Burglary	24
Bicycle Theft	16
Drugs	16
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	4
All Crime	660

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 Testwood. 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 Testwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maybush (1.86 miles)	574
Redbridge (1.48 miles)	493
Testwood	334
Rushington (1.24 miles)	164
Totton (0.62 miles)	155
Calmore (0.62 miles)	125
Hammond’s Green (0.88 miles)	90
Nursling (1.75 miles)	88
Ashurst Bridge (1.39 miles)	39
Netley Marsh (1.76 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Testwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maybush	251
Testwood	230
Redbridge	207
Rushington	107
Calmore	66
Totton	61
Hammond’s Green	37
Nursling	26
Ashurst Bridge	15
Netley Marsh	10

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

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 Testwood 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 Testwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Testwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Testwood is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Redbridge	94
2	Millbrook	87
3	Coxford	77
4	Totton East	74
5	Totton North	71
6	Bramshaw, Copythorne North and Minstead	63
7	Totton West	60
8	Totton South	56
9	Totton Central	41
10	Ashurst, Copythorne South and Netley Marsh	38
11	Blackwater	30

Which road in Testwood has the highest level of crime?

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