Council area

Test Valley crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 8,274 street-crime records for the Test Valley council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.4% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 63.4 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 Test Valley council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Test Valley: 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

8,274

Latest month (August 2026)

731

Year-on-year

-0.4%

Month-by-month totals

668

Sep

677

Oct

653

Nov

635

Dec

695

Jan

552

Feb

727

Mar

636

Apr

747

May

739

Jun

814

Jul

731

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	668
October 2025	677
November 2025	653
December 2025	635
January 2026	695
February 2026	552
March 2026	727
April 2026	636
May 2026	747
June 2026	739
July 2026	814
August 2026	731

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.

Test Valley council area

63.4

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.

8,274 records and 130,598 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.

Which parts of Test Valley have the lowest and highest published crime rates?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. These are published street-crime records per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, as each area's own page and the crime rate rankings gave them on 31 October 2026. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit and few live, such as a town centre. Areas with fewer than 5,000 residents, and areas whose own page withholds a rate, are not ranked. How rankings are built.

Postcode sectors

Of the 9 postcode sectors mostly in Test Valley with a ranked rate, SO53 4 has the lowest, 16.9 per 1,000 residents, and SP10 5 the highest, 119.4, September 2025 to August 2026.

Rank of 9	Sector	Per 1,000	Records
1	SP10 5 5,663 residents	119.4	676
2	SP10 2 9,963 residents	100.0	996
3	SP10 4 6,949 residents	69.4	482
4	SP11 6 15,515 residents	54.0	838
5	SP10 3 13,116 residents	52.7	691
6	SO51 0 7,242 residents	37.3	270
7	SO51 7 7,689 residents	36.8	283
8	SO52 9 7,197 residents	29.9	215
9	SO53 4 7,355 residents	16.9	124

Postcode districts

Of the 5 postcode districts mostly in Test Valley with a ranked rate, SO52 has the lowest, 29.9 per 1,000 residents, and SP10 the highest, 96.8, September 2025 to August 2026.

Rank of 5	District	Per 1,000	Records
1	SP10 39,807 residents	96.8	3,852
2	SP11 35,693 residents	50.6	1,805
3	SO20 8,072 residents	45.0	363
4	SO51 29,997 residents	44.9	1,348
5	SO52 7,197 residents	29.9	215

Top crime categories

Share of the Test Valley 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 Test Valley council area

Records by part of the Test Valley council area: the north 4,611, the south 3,242, the south-east 951, the north-east 414, the north-west 200, the south-west 162, the west 81, the east 68, the centre 9.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Test Valley council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Test Valley 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 Test Valley council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Test Valley council area on the crime map.

Year by year

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

Year	Street-crime records
2021	10,107
2022	10,282
2023	9,006
2024	8,660
2025	8,144
2026 (part year)	5,641

Police forces

The Test Valley council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.5%), Wiltshire Police (0.3%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Nottinghamshire Police (0.0%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Dyfed-Powys Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000093), which can differ from the place people call Test Valley.
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 Test Valley. 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

Neighbouring council areas

Council areas that share a postcode district with this one.

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CrimeMapsUK. Test Valley council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 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/test-valley/