Total Crime Rate
94.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
53.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Wingfield Street area has the 18th lowest crime rate of 88 local areas in Charles Dickens , and the 272nd highest crime rate of 578 local areas in Portsmouth .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Wingfield Street (PO1 4PG) in the last 12 months was 94.2 per 1,000 residents and was 64.1% lower than the Charles Dickens average (262.3 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 18 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 21 (≈ 53.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 23.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -9.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Wingfield Street (PO1 4PG), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Sultan Road, where police recorded 93 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Wingfield Street (54 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Portsmouth| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grafton Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Maitland Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hertford Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hertford Place | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Hale Street North | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sultan Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Sultan Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Drummond Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wingfield Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Maitland Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Cairo Terrace | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Turner Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Alexandra Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Alexandra Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Nelson Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prince'S Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Prince'S Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Prince'S Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Prince'S Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Prince'S Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Union Place | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Turner Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Brownlow Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Westminster Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Seymour Close | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Seymour Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Seymour Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Seymour Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Seymour Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Seymour Close | — |
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