Total Crime Rate
473.2 per 1,000
All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025High Street area has the 4th highest crime rate of 34 local areas in Forton , and the 4th highest crime rate of 267 local areas in Gosport .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around High Street (PO12 1DG) in the last 12 months was 473.2 per 1,000 residents and was 298.9% higher than the Forton average (118.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 51 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other theft ( -80.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 62 (≈ 276.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -3.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -49.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around High Street (PO12 1DG), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 161 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Parking Area (57 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Forton| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Local resolution |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Trinity Green | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | North Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | North Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Trinity Green | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Ordnance Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Ordnance Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Ordnance Road | — |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Thorngate Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Thorngate Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Thorngate Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Thorngate Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Thorngate Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Thorngate Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Trinity Green | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Mumby Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Thorngate Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Harbour Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Nightclub | — |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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