Council area

New Forest crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 10,269 street-crime records for the New Forest council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.0% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 58.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 83.4 for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area New Forest council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call New Forest: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

10,269

Latest month (August 2026)

986

Year-on-year

-6.0%

Month-by-month totals

836

Sep

847

Oct

787

Nov

763

Dec

804

Jan

690

Feb

821

Mar

813

Apr

934

May

918

Jun

1.1k

Jul

986

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	836
October 2025	847
November 2025	787
December 2025	763
January 2026	804
February 2026	690
March 2026	821
April 2026	813
May 2026	934
June 2026	918
July 2026	1,070
August 2026	986

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

New Forest council area

58.4

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.

10,269 records and 175,789 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of the New Forest council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in the New Forest council area

Held back: the New Forest council area's postcodes spread so far that even the crime map's zoomed-out hexagons would draw too small on a phone to read as areas. Explore the New Forest council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the New Forest council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	13,231
2022	13,445
2023	12,024
2024	11,496
2025	10,479
2026 (part year)	7,036

Police forces

The New Forest council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.7%), Wiltshire Police (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Dorset Police (0.0%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.0%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%) and Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000091), which can differ from the place people call New Forest.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for New Forest. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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Postcode districts

Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.

Postcode sectors

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Council areas that share a postcode district with this one.

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CrimeMapsUK. New Forest council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/council-areas/new-forest/