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SO4 crime statistics
The SO4 postcode district, in the SO (Southampton) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,988 street-crime records for SO4 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.8% fewer 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
2,988
Latest month (August 2026)
297
Year-on-year
-8.8%
Month-by-month totals
3010
266
Sep
235
Oct
218
Nov
226
Dec
250
Jan
170
Feb
224
Mar
267
Apr
265
May
269
Jun
301
Jul
297
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
266
October 2025
235
November 2025
218
December 2025
226
January 2026
250
February 2026
170
March 2026
224
April 2026
267
May 2026
265
June 2026
269
July 2026
301
August 2026
297
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 SO4 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 offences42.0%
1,256 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour12.8%
382 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson10.1%
303 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order9.0%
270 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft5.8%
174 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary5.4%
161 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Shoplifting4.3%
128 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Vehicle crime4.0%
119 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SO4 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
3,671
2022
3,476
2023
3,333
2024
3,324
2025
3,183
2026 (part year)
2,043
Is SO4 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SO4 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 249 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 301.
Records here changed by -8.8% on the 12 months before, against +1.4% across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.9% of SO4's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 42.0% 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 SO4 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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