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SO3 crime statistics
The SO3 postcode district, in the SO (Southampton) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,825 street-crime records for SO3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 15.3% more than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
2,825
Latest month (August 2026)
230
Year-on-year
+15.3%
Month-by-month totals
2970
210
Sep
235
Oct
221
Nov
211
Dec
190
Jan
225
Feb
250
Mar
230
Apr
276
May
250
Jun
297
Jul
230
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
210
October 2025
235
November 2025
221
December 2025
211
January 2026
190
February 2026
225
March 2026
250
April 2026
230
May 2026
276
June 2026
250
July 2026
297
August 2026
230
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
No Census 2021 residents are recorded for these postcodes, so no rate is shown.
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 SO3 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 offences39.5%
1,116 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour16.5%
466 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson8.2%
233 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order7.2%
203 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting6.8%
191 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft6.3%
178 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime5.4%
152 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary3.3%
94 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SO3 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
3,051
2022
3,100
2023
2,559
2024
2,462
2025
2,530
2026 (part year)
1,948
Is SO3 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SO3 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 235 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 297.
Records here changed by +15.3% on the 12 months before, against +1.4% across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.8% of SO3's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 39.5% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SO3 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
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