PO9 crime rate and statistics

The PO9 postcode district, in the PO (Portsmouth) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 6,006 street-crime records for PO9 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 118.0 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

6,006

Latest month (August 2026)

570

Year-on-year

-1.6%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 499
October 2025 534
November 2025 402
December 2025 406
January 2026 429
February 2026 468
March 2026 526
April 2026 489
May 2026 552
June 2026 508
July 2026 623
August 2026 570

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.

PO9

118.0

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

6,006 records and 50,891 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 PO9 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 PO9

Published street-crime records in PO9, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of PO9: the south-west 3,453, the west 1,368, the south 904, the north 169, the centre 67, the north-east 7, the north-west 6, the east 6, the south-east 4.

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 PO9's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PO9'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 PO9 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PO9 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for PO9 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 6,645
2022 6,632
2023 6,247
2024 6,231
2025 5,789
2026 (part year) 4,165

Is PO9 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PO9 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in PO9 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

PO9's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.7%), Sussex Police (0.2%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Durham Constabulary (0.0%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Metropolitan Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in PO9

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

Sector Street-crime records
PO9 1 1,205
PO9 2 941
PO9 3 886
PO9 4 1,220
PO9 5 1,564
PO9 6 190

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 50,891 Census 2021 residents of PO9.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 41.2% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 8.9% 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 PO9 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) £285,000 (322)
2025 £285,000 (658)
2024 £295,000 (601)
2023 £285,000 (601)
2022 £293,000 (739)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £510,000 (57) £335,000 (93) £258,000 (123) £148,000 (49)
2025 £520,000 (131) £320,000 (203) £260,000 (254) £156,000 (70)
2024 £540,000 (125) £340,000 (192) £258,000 (201) £154,000 (83)
2023 £525,000 (114) £318,500 (178) £260,000 (208) £163,000 (101)
2022 £511,500 (156) £321,000 (238) £260,500 (244) £157,000 (101)

Schools and colleges

18 open establishments with a postcode in PO9, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 18 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Park Community School All-through Community school
Barncroft Primary School Primary Community school
Bidbury Infant School Primary Community school
Bidbury Junior School Primary Community school
Bosmere Junior School Primary Community school
Fairfield Infant School Primary Community school
Front Lawn Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Rowlands Castle St John's Church of England Controlled Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Sharps Copse Primary and Nursery School Primary Community school
St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant Primary Voluntary aided school
Trosnant Infant School Primary Community school
Trosnant Junior School Primary Community school
Warren Park Primary School Primary Foundation school
Havant Academy Secondary Academy sponsor led
Warblington School Secondary Community school
Prospect School – Community special school
Releasing Potential School – Other independent school

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
High96
Medium36
Low66
Very low2

Broadband

Share of the 1,179 postcodes in PO9 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
Gigabit85.0%93.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)97.2%98.6%

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CrimeMapsUK. PO9 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/po9/

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