Recorded crime
Southampton recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district centre, across 8 Southampton districts. Counts, not rates.
Crimes recorded, July 2026
3,799
Across 8 districts, within about 1 mile of each centre.
- Districts
- 8
- Most recorded
- Violence
data.police.uk, July 2026
Summary
Recorded crime in Southampton: police recorded 3,799 crimes in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of the centre of each of the 8 postcode districts with a published figure. SO31 has the lowest recorded count (72) and SO14 the highest (1,327). The most often recorded category was violent crime, at 36% of the month's recorded crimes. These are counts, not rates: a district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one on footfall alone.
Data from data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026.
Read this first
These are counts, not rates. data.police.uk street-level crime API publishes how many crimes were recorded near a point; it publishes no population figure to divide by. A district with a station, shops and bars will record more crime than a residential one because more people pass through it, not necessarily because residents are more likely to be a victim. Recorded crime is also only crime that was reported and recorded, and reporting rates vary by crime type and by area.
Use this to see the shape of a city and to prompt better questions, not to decide that one district is good and another bad.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on Southampton crime counts: big differences, read with care
July 2026’s police records for Southampton show 3,799 crimes across 8 districts, running from 72 in SO31 to 1,327 in SO14, which says more about where people gather than about where anyone feels at risk.
For sellers, a buyer who has read these numbers will ask about them, so be ready with the plain facts about your street rather than a defensive answer.
Sell houseWhen buying, use the count to ask better questions rather than to rank places: the most often recorded category was violent crime (36%), which may or may not be what happens on your street.
Walk the street after dark and on a weekday morning, study the police’s street-level map for that postcode, and let your conveyancer chase any disclosure.
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Key figures
Southampton crime counts at a glance
Police records for July 2026. A count near each district centre is not a safety ranking.
Lowest district
72
SO31, crimes recorded
Middle district
371
Median of the districts
Highest district
1,327
SO14, crimes recorded
Top category
Violence
1,378 of 3,799 crimes
Recorded crime
Southampton crime by category and district
3,799 recorded crimes across 8 districts in July 2026.
By category
What the recorded crimes were
Violent crime was the most recorded category, with 1,378 of 3,799 crimes (36%). It describes the month's police records, not what is likely to happen to you.
See the figures
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 1,378 | 36% |
| Anti social behaviour | 490 | 13% |
| Shoplifting | 421 | 11% |
| Public order | 392 | 10% |
| Criminal damage arson | 271 | 7% |
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
By district
Southampton districts, lowest recorded count first
Counts run from 72 in SO31 to 1,327 in SO14. Each row is one postcode district: how many crimes police recorded within about a mile of its centre.
See the figures
| District | Recorded crimes | Most recorded category | Area data |
|---|---|---|---|
| SO31 | 72 | Violent crime (27) | SO31 area report |
| SO30 | 130 | Violent crime (34) | SO30 area report |
| SO18 | 351 | Violent crime (147) | SO18 area report |
| SO16 | 371 | Violent crime (151) | SO16 area report |
| SO19 | 371 | Violent crime (143) | SO19 area report |
| SO17 | 479 | Violent crime (166) | SO17 area report |
| SO15 | 698 | Violent crime (258) | SO15 area report |
| SO14 | 1,327 | Violent crime (452) | SO14 area report |
Districts with no figure published for July 2026 are left out rather than shown as zero: a force not having published yet is not the same fact as no crime.
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
Reading the numbers
What the numbers show
Across the 8 Southampton postcode districts with a published figure for July 2026, police recorded 3,799 crimes in total within roughly a mile of each district centroid. The median district recorded 371.
SO31 has the lowest recorded crime count of the districts listed (72), and SO14 the highest (1,327).
The spread across the city is wide: the highest-counting district recorded about 18.4 times as many crimes as the lowest. Much of a gap that size reflects what is in the radius: a city-centre district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one before any difference in how people behave.
The most frequently recorded category across these districts was violent crime, at 36% of all recorded crimes in the month.
Questions, answered
Southampton recorded crime: your questions
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Why does this page not rank Southampton districts by crime rate?
Source and method
Where these figures come from
data.police.uk street-level crime API (API documentation), month 2026-07, one request per district at its centroid, ~1 mile radius. England and Wales only. Data.police.uk does not carry Police Scotland or PSNI. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crime locations published by police forces are snapped to anonymised map points to protect victims, so a point is never an exact address. A guide is only generated for a city where at least 5 of its districts have a published figure.
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