Crime in SO5 8

The SO5 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 199 street-crime records for SO5 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.3% 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

199

Share of SO5

7.1%

Year-on-year

+5.3%

SO5 8 holds 7.1% 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	20
October 2025	18
November 2025	15
December 2025	12
January 2026	15
February 2026	8
March 2026	22
April 2026	9
May 2026	23
June 2026	14
July 2026	24
August 2026	19

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 8	SO5	Force
Violence and sexual offences	36.2%	39.3%	39.8%
Anti-social behaviour	13.6%	13.6%	12.5%
Shoplifting	10.6%	9.2%	9.2%
Criminal damage and arson	7.5%	6.7%	7.3%
Other crime	6.0%	3.0%	1.9%
Burglary	6.0%	4.0%	3.3%
Public order	5.5%	7.6%	8.3%
Other theft	5.0%	6.6%	6.5%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SO5 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	307
2022	254
2023	170
2024	178
2025	198
2026 (part year)	134

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 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/so5-8/

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