Crime in SO16 5

The SO16 5 postcode sector, in the SO (Southampton) postcode area, with most records published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 241 street-crime records for SO16 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 32.3 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.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

241

Share of SO16

7.2%

Year-on-year

-5.5%

SO16 5 holds 7.2% of the 3,339 records assigned to SO16 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	20
October 2025	22
November 2025	14
December 2025	10
January 2026	20
February 2026	17
March 2026	31
April 2026	23
May 2026	20
June 2026	23
July 2026	21
August 2026	20

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.

SO16 5

32.3

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

241 records and 7,452 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	SO16 5	SO16	Force
Violence and sexual offences	31.1%	37.3%	39.8%
Criminal damage and arson	14.1%	7.8%	7.3%
Vehicle crime	11.6%	5.8%	4.1%
Anti-social behaviour	11.2%	11.6%	12.5%
Public order	8.3%	7.5%	8.3%
Other theft	7.1%	6.2%	6.5%
Burglary	3.7%	3.7%	3.3%
Possession of weapons	2.5%	1.3%	1.2%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SO16 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	400
2022	389
2023	288
2024	294
2025	227
2026 (part year)	175

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.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district in Hampshire

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 7,452 Census 2021 residents of SO16 5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 39.3% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

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39% 2

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22% 4

14% 5

0% 6

23% 7

1% 8

0% 9

0% 10

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.

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This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for SO16 5 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. SO16 5 postcode sector: 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/sectors/so16-5/

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