Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in PO2 7
The PO2 7 postcode sector, in the PO (Portsmouth) postcode area, with most records published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,574 street-crime records for PO2 7 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 122.9 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,574
Share of PO2
34.0%
Year-on-year
+0.8%
PO2 7 holds 34.0% of the 4,627 records assigned to PO2 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
135
October 2025
152
November 2025
123
December 2025
111
January 2026
157
February 2026
105
March 2026
134
April 2026
114
May 2026
125
June 2026
153
July 2026
149
August 2026
116
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.
PO2 7
122.9
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary
83.4
1,574 records and 12,811 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.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.
Category
PO2 7
PO2
Force
Violence and sexual offences
43.3%
40.2%
39.8%
Shoplifting
10.4%
12.2%
9.2%
Anti-social behaviour
8.3%
10.2%
12.5%
Public order
7.5%
8.0%
8.3%
Criminal damage and arson
6.5%
6.5%
7.3%
Vehicle crime
6.4%
6.5%
4.1%
Other theft
5.8%
5.9%
6.5%
Drugs
3.2%
2.9%
3.4%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for PO2 7 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
2,008
2022
1,831
2023
1,629
2024
1,519
2025
1,596
2026 (part year)
1,053
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 sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 12,811 Census 2021 residents of PO2 7.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 38.9% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
35%1
4%2
24%3
27%4
11%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
0%9
0%10
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.
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