SO31 crime rate and statistics

The SO31 postcode district, in the SO (Southampton) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,532 street-crime records for SO31 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 31.5 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

1,532

Latest month (August 2026)

104

Year-on-year

-1.9%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 119
October 2025 111
November 2025 115
December 2025 106
January 2026 109
February 2026 99
March 2026 126
April 2026 114
May 2026 182
June 2026 160
July 2026 187
August 2026 104

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.

SO31

31.5

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

1,532 records and 48,667 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 SO31 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 SO31

Published street-crime records in SO31, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of SO31: the east 816, the north 504, the west 414, the north-west 414, the south-east 322, the north-east 250, the south-west 150, the south 111, the centre 1.

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 SO31's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SO31'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 SO31 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SO31 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SO31 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,539
2022 1,653
2023 1,618
2024 1,423
2025 1,550
2026 (part year) 1,081

Is SO31 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SO31 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SO31 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

SO31's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.8%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%) and Suffolk Constabulary (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in SO31

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

Sector Street-crime records
SO31 1 175
SO31 4 111
SO31 5 231
SO31 6 209
SO31 7 299
SO31 8 446
SO31 9 61

Council areas

SO31 is mostly in the Fareham council area, and also covers parts of the Eastleigh council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 48,667 Census 2021 residents of SO31.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 3.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 57.8% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

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 SO31 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) £353,500 (414)
2025 £385,000 (858)
2024 £365,000 (771)
2023 £375,000 (609)
2022 £382,250 (868)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £545,000 (163) £350,000 (95) £285,000 (86) £194,000 (70)
2025 £530,000 (361) £360,000 (222) £305,000 (150) £210,000 (125)
2024 £525,000 (291) £341,250 (214) £290,000 (147) £205,000 (119)
2023 £508,000 (223) £366,000 (152) £285,000 (117) £209,000 (117)
2022 £537,500 (342) £362,500 (204) £295,000 (133) £225,000 (189)

Schools and colleges

15 open establishments with a postcode in SO31, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 15 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Bursledon Church of England Infant School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Bursledon Junior School(CA) Primary Community school
Hamble Primary School Primary Community school
Hook-With-Warsash Church of England Academy Primary Academy converter
Locks Heath Infant & Nursery School Primary Community school
Locks Heath Junior School Primary Community school
Netley Abbey Infant School Primary Community school
Netley Abbey Junior School Primary Community school
Park Gate Primary School Primary Community school
Sarisbury Church of England Junior School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Sarisbury Infant School Primary Community school
Brookfield Community School Secondary Community school
The Hamble School Secondary Community school
Fair Ways School – Other independent special school
King's Academy Lord Wilson – Academy special converter

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
High47
Medium3
Low9
Very low4

Broadband

Share of the 1,157 postcodes in SO31 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
Gigabit72.1%90.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)93.9%99.0%

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CrimeMapsUK. SO31 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/so31/

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