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Portsmouth crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 26,799 street-crime records for the Portsmouth council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.1% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 128.9 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 Portsmouth council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Portsmouth: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
26,799
Latest month (August 2026)
2,513
Year-on-year
+2.1%
Month-by-month totals
2,6230
2.2k
Sep
2.2k
Oct
2.1k
Nov
2.0k
Dec
2.0k
Jan
1.9k
Feb
2.3k
Mar
2.2k
Apr
2.5k
May
2.3k
Jun
2.6k
Jul
2.5k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,204
October 2025
2,191
November 2025
2,067
December 2025
1,968
January 2026
2,025
February 2026
1,918
March 2026
2,263
April 2026
2,164
May 2026
2,522
June 2026
2,341
July 2026
2,623
August 2026
2,513
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.
Portsmouth council area
128.9
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.
26,799 records and 207,979 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 Portsmouth 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.
Violence and sexual offences39.0%
10,447 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Shoplifting11.5%
3,072 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Anti-social behaviour11.2%
2,998 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order8.3%
2,218 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson6.1%
1,636 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.9%
1,578 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime5.2%
1,382 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Drugs3.9%
1,057 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Where records cluster in the Portsmouth council area
Records by part of the Portsmouth council area: the south 9,179, the south-west 8,494, the north 3,394, the north-west 1,660, the south-east 1,395, the north-east 1,190, the west 937, the east 307, the centre 65.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of the Portsmouth council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Portsmouth council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Portsmouth council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Portsmouth council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Portsmouth council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000044), which can differ from the place people call Portsmouth.
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 Portsmouth. 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.
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.