SP5 crime rate and statistics

The SP5 postcode district, in the SP (Salisbury) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 788 street-crime records for SP5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 35.1 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 69.6 for Wiltshire Police. 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

788

Latest month (August 2026)

55

Year-on-year

-8.5%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 58
October 2025 83
November 2025 66
December 2025 83
January 2026 84
February 2026 66
March 2026 60
April 2026 66
May 2026 49
June 2026 47
July 2026 71
August 2026 55

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.

SP5

35.1

Wiltshire Police

69.6

788 records and 22,462 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 SP5 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 SP5

Held back: SP5's postcodes spread so far that even the crime map's zoomed-out hexagons would draw too small on a phone to read as areas. Explore SP5 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SP5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 946
2022 1,038
2023 798
2024 860
2025 863
2026 (part year) 498

Is SP5 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SP5 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SP5 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

Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house. Browse all postcode districts

Police forces

SP5's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Wiltshire Police (90.1%), Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (5.3%), Dorset Police (4.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.3%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.1%) and Dyfed-Powys Police (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in SP5

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

Sector Street-crime records
SP5 1 140
SP5 2 193
SP5 3 253
SP5 4 91
SP5 5 111

Council areas

SP5 is mostly in the Wiltshire council area, and also covers parts of the Dorset council area and the Test Valley 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 22,462 Census 2021 residents of SP5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 30.0% 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 SP5 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) £450,000 (149)
2025 £470,000 (293)
2024 £490,000 (221)
2023 £539,000 (257)
2022 £471,000 (274)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £570,000 (89) £340,000 (33) £325,000 (20) £145,000 (7)
2025 £602,500 (174) £360,000 (65) £295,000 (46) £240,000 (8)
2024 £597,500 (134) £330,000 (58) £280,000 (23) £188,750 (6)
2023 £585,000 (175) £375,000 (53) £340,000 (25) – (4)
2022 £606,250 (172) £375,000 (65) £280,000 (27) £190,000 (10)

Schools and colleges

14 open establishments with a postcode in SP5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 14 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Broad Chalke CofE Primary School Primary Academy converter
Coombe Bissett Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Downton CofE VA Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Longford Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Pitton Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
Sixpenny Handley First School and Nursery Primary Academy converter
The New Forest Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
West Tytherley Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Whiteparish All Saints Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Winterslow Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
The Trafalgar School at Downton Secondary Academy converter
Sandroyd 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
High41
Medium18
Low38
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 1,018 postcodes in SP5 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
Gigabit45.0%63.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)81.5%91.7%

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CrimeMapsUK. SP5 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/sp5/

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