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Crime in SO16 8
The SO16 8 postcode sector, in the SO (Southampton) postcode area, with most records published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 435 street-crime records for SO16 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.9% 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
435
Share of SO16
12.3%
Year-on-year
-2.9%
SO16 8 holds 12.3% of the 3,524 records assigned to SO16 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
29
October 2025
39
November 2025
28
December 2025
18
January 2026
38
February 2026
30
March 2026
35
April 2026
40
May 2026
53
June 2026
34
July 2026
45
August 2026
46
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
11% of this area's records sit at postcodes created after Census Day 2021, whose residents the census could not count, 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.
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 8
SO16
Force
Violence and sexual offences
37.2%
38.1%
39.8%
Anti-social behaviour
15.6%
11.8%
12.5%
Vehicle crime
14.7%
5.9%
4.1%
Criminal damage and arson
7.4%
7.6%
7.3%
Public order
6.7%
7.5%
8.3%
Burglary
5.1%
3.6%
3.3%
Other theft
3.7%
6.0%
6.5%
Drugs
2.8%
1.7%
3.4%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SO16 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
581
2022
447
2023
384
2024
428
2025
413
2026 (part year)
321
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 12,049 Census 2021 residents of SO16 8.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 26.5% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 36.2% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
27%2
12%3
3%4
6%5
0%6
0%7
17%8
15%9
22%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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