Crime in SO3 8

The SO3 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 211 street-crime records for SO3 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 26.3% more than in the 12 months before. 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

211

Share of SO3

7.6%

Year-on-year

+26.3%

SO3 8 holds 7.6% of the 2,784 records assigned to SO3 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	18
October 2025	20
November 2025	21
December 2025	27
January 2026	11
February 2026	7
March 2026	13
April 2026	16
May 2026	27
June 2026	19
July 2026	22
August 2026	10

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.

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	SO3 8	SO3	Force
Violence and sexual offences	34.1%	40.1%	39.8%
Anti-social behaviour	21.3%	16.6%	12.5%
Criminal damage and arson	14.2%	8.2%	7.3%
Other theft	12.3%	6.8%	6.5%
Public order	5.7%	7.0%	8.3%
Vehicle crime	2.8%	5.6%	4.1%
Other crime	2.8%	2.2%	1.9%
Drugs	2.8%	2.0%	3.4%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SO3 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	279
2022	280
2023	184
2024	205
2025	198
2026 (part year)	125

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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CrimeMapsUK. SO3 8 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/so3-8/

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