Crime Statistics for Wecock, Havant, Hampshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wecock in October 2024. There were a total of 268 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 Wecock, 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	90
Shoplifting	50
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Vehicle Crime	18
Other Theft	18
Public Order	16
Burglary	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	268

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 Wecock. 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 Wecock

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wecock	250
Waterlooville (1.24 miles)	155
Anmore (0.62 miles)	99
Forest of Bere (0.98 miles)	96
Lovedean (0.62 miles)	88
Mead End (1.24 miles)	75
Horndean (1.76 miles)	58
Blendworth (2.24 miles)	37
Catherington (1.96 miles)	34
Furzeley Corner (1.96 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Wecock?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wecock	90
Waterlooville	56
Mead End	43
Anmore	35
Lovedean	31
Forest of Bere	27
Horndean	19
Furzeley Corner	18
Catherington	15
Blendworth	10

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

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 Wecock 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 Wecock compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Barncroft	88
2	Warren Park	86
3	Hart Plain	62
4	Rowlands Castle	59
5	Stakes	57
6	Waterloo	37
7	Cowplain	35
8	Denmead	31
9	Horndean Catherington	18
10	Horndean Murray	17
11	Horndean Kings & Blendworth	17

Which road in Wecock has the highest level of crime?

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