Crime in SO5 3

The SO5 3 postcode sector, in the SO (Southampton) postcode area, with most records published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 329 street-crime records for SO5 3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 18.4% fewer 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

329

Share of SO5

11.7%

Year-on-year

-18.4%

SO5 3 holds 11.7% of the 2,822 records assigned to SO5 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	22
October 2025	25
November 2025	37
December 2025	23
January 2026	19
February 2026	24
March 2026	35
April 2026	24
May 2026	34
June 2026	27
July 2026	36
August 2026	23

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	SO5 3	SO5	Force
Violence and sexual offences	37.1%	39.3%	39.8%
Anti-social behaviour	11.6%	13.6%	12.5%
Public order	9.1%	7.6%	8.3%
Shoplifting	7.6%	9.2%	9.2%
Other theft	7.3%	6.6%	6.5%
Vehicle crime	5.8%	3.7%	4.1%
Criminal damage and arson	5.2%	6.7%	7.3%
Drugs	4.9%	2.8%	3.4%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SO5 3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	492
2022	489
2023	502
2024	436
2025	353
2026 (part year)	222

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. SO5 3 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/so5-3/

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