Total Crime Rate
80.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
46.3 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Severn Close area has the 9th lowest crime rate of 21 local areas in Paulsgrove , and the 278th lowest 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 Severn Close (PO6 4BB) in the last 12 months was 80.5 per 1,000 residents and was 18.0% lower than the Paulsgrove average (98.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 16 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 19 (≈ 46.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -29.6% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -56.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Severn Close (PO6 4BB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Bourne Road, where police recorded 93 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Marsden Road (45 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Portsmouth| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Leominster Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Edwards Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Edwards Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cleeve Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Marsden Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Allaway Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Elkstone Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Marsden Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Cinderford Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Lime Grove | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Nailsworth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bourne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Severn Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Rydal Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rydal Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rydal Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rydal Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tarleton Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Leominster Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Marsden Road | Under investigation |
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