PO1 crime rate and statistics

The PO1 postcode district, in the PO (Portsmouth) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 7,192 street-crime records for PO1 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 228.6 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.

Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

7,192

Latest month (August 2026)

697

Year-on-year

+1.5%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 643
October 2025 618
November 2025 607
December 2025 519
January 2026 504
February 2026 452
March 2026 595
April 2026 553
May 2026 695
June 2026 612
July 2026 697
August 2026 697

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.

PO1

228.6

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

7,192 records and 31,460 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 PO1 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 PO1

Published street-crime records in PO1, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of PO1: the north-east 2,304, the centre 1,477, the east 1,432, the south-west 1,258, the west 998, the north 371, the south 199, the north-west 162.

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 PO1's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PO1'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 PO1 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PO1 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for PO1 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 7,955
2022 8,488
2023 8,121
2024 7,402
2025 6,911
2026 (part year) 4,805

Is PO1 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PO1 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in PO1 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

PO1's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.8%), Sussex Police (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Warwickshire Police (0.0%), Wiltshire Police (0.0%) and Norfolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in PO1

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
PO1 1 2,150
PO1 2 1,541
PO1 3 1,045
PO1 4 1,196
PO1 5 1,260

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 31,460 Census 2021 residents of PO1.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 49.4% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 3.6% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About PO1 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £220,000 (124)
2025 £222,500 (236)
2024 £225,000 (221)
2023 £223,000 (183)
2022 £220,000 (304)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 – £184,500 (6) £225,000 (79) £190,000 (39)
2025 – (2) – (2) £228,000 (151) £185,000 (81)
2024 – (2) – (1) £226,500 (131) £202,000 (87)
2023 – (2) – (3) £226,500 (117) £185,000 (61)
2022 – (3) £230,000 (5) £228,250 (184) £175,000 (112)

Schools and colleges

12 open establishments with a postcode in PO1, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 12 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Ark Dickens Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Arundel Court Primary Academy and Nursery Primary Academy converter
Manor Infant and Nursery School Primary Community school
Penbridge Infant School Primary Academy converter
St George's Beneficial Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
St John's Cathedral Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Jude's CofE Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
St Edmund's Catholic School Secondary Voluntary aided school
The Portsmouth Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Madani Academy – Other independent school
The Portsmouth Grammar School – Other independent school
University of Portsmouth – Higher education institutions

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High36
Medium8
Low13
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 831 postcodes in PO1 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit75.9%86.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)92.2%95.2%

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CrimeMapsUK. PO1 postcode district: 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/districts/po1/

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