Crime Statistics for Parkhurst, Newport, Isle of Wight, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Parkhurst in August 2024. There were a total of 227 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 Parkhurst, 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	94
Shoplifting	42
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Public Order	19
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	12
Other Crime	4
Burglary	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Robbery	2
Drugs	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	227

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pan (1.39 miles)	338
Barton (0.88 miles)	261
Fairlee (0.96 miles)	240
Parkhurst	227
Shide (1.39 miles)	209
Newport (1.24 miles)	150
Carisbrooke (1.39 miles)	53
Isle of Wight (1.96 miles)	18
Forest Side (1.39 miles)	14
Clatterford (1.96 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Parkhurst?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pan	147
Fairlee	98
Barton	97
Parkhurst	94
Shide	87
Newport	53
Carisbrooke	24
Forest Side	11
Isle of Wight	6
Clatterford	3

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

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 Parkhurst 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 Parkhurst compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newport Central	77
2	Newport East	70
3	Newport South	66
4	Newport North	58
5	Parkhurst	54
6	Newport West	52
7	Havenstreet, Ashey and Haylands	48
8	Carisbrooke	36
9	Cowes West and Gurnard	24
10	Arreton and Newchurch	17
11	Cowes South and Northwood	16

Which road in Parkhurst has the highest level of crime?

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