The Cross Keys Public House · Photo: Hassocks5489 · CC0Totton records more crime per resident than 79% of UK towns
Violent crime was down 22% in a year. Even so, the grade is C−, built on crimes police recorded inside Totton’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #66 of 76 in Hampshire. Per 1,000 residents a year, 35.3 violent and sexual offences and 14.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were recorded.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Totton
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 22% less violent crime per resident in Totton than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 31% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 220 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000 people, Totton has the 122nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Sedgley, Yate and Warwick, higher than Long Eaton, Sudbury and Sunbury-on-Thames. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Totton’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 4,208 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Totton against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How crime in Totton has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -22% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -31% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -36% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +0% (towns its size -4%).
How Totton’s neighbourhoods rank in England
18% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 6% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Totton’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Totton runs highest on burglary (3.4 per 1,000 against 2.4) and public order (7 per 1,000 against 5.4). Drugs and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 825 | 29.4 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 218 | 7.8 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 198 | 7 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 152 | 5.4 | 6.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 138 | 4.9 | 6.1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 118 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 95 | 3.4 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 74 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 45 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 37 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 24 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 19 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 14 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 12 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Totton per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 11 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 10 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Totton Central, Totton South and Totton West; highest in Totton East
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totton Central | 5,220 | 19 | 8.4 | |
| Totton South | 5,329 | 23.2 | 10.6 | |
| Totton West | 4,861 | 39.4 | 13.2 | |
| Totton North | 6,344 | 37.3 | 19.2 | |
| Totton East | 6,339 | 48.6 | 18.2 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 502 | 36% violent |
| Supermarkets | 422 | 81% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 196 | 30% violent |
| Hospitals | 138 | 64% violent |
| Petrol stations | 71 | 93% shoplifting & theft |
| College and university buildings | 70 | 47% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Totton East records 1.6× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Totton. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Totton. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Totton’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
122nd of 220: Totton among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heswall Merseyside | 29,082 | 14.3 | 5.5 | 3.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | Lee-on-the-Solent Hampshire | 24,307 | 17.8 | 5 | 5.3 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 9 | Chandler's Ford Hampshire | 31,965 | 17.5 | 6.7 | 6 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 20 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 20.6 | 7 | 7.4 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Hedge End Hampshire | 23,195 | 22.1 | 8.2 | 16.9 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 119 | Long Eaton Derbyshire | 37,815 | 37.6 | 12.1 | 20.3 | C− |
| 120 | Sudbury Suffolk | 23,922 | 37.9 | 11.8 | 12.7 | C− |
| 121 | Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey | 21,476 | 31.9 | 18 | 11.1 | C− |
| 122 | Totton Hampshire | 28,093 | 35.3 | 14.7 | 15.1 | C− |
| 123 | Windsor Berkshire | 31,569 | 34 | 16.3 | 21.7 | C− |
| 124 | March Cambridgeshire | 21,345 | 37.8 | 12.7 | 11 | C− |
| 125 | Melton Mowbray Leicestershire | 27,451 | 35.1 | 15.7 | 17.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 220 | Great Yarmouth Norfolk | 28,979 | 105 | 32.9 | 33.7 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Totton, and others in Hampshire.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 71% of Totton’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (61% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 3% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 1,457 crimes.
One person died in collisions on Totton’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 185 collisions with injuries inside Totton in five years, in which one person died (1 was a cyclist). 45 people were killed or seriously injured: 11 on foot and 17 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Totton’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Totton’s own rate (0.7) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Totton had 31.7 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8). 24% of them were on foot, against 30% across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Totton’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Totton
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totton | 28,093 | 35.3 | 14.7 | C− |
| Ashurst | 2,370 | 11.4 | 8.3 | A− |
| Rownhams and Nursling | 4,796 | 27.4 | 22.9 | C− |
| Cadnam and Bartley | 2,023 | 20.8 | 11.4 | B− |
| Marchwood | 5,776 | 22.9 | 8.8 | B− |
| Lyndhurst | 2,462 | 17.5 | 9.8 | B |
| Southampton | 249,633 | 58.3 | 22.2 | D− |
| North Baddesley | 6,996 | 18.2 | 9 | B |
Totton records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Rownhams and Nursling and Southampton record more. Ashurst, 1.6 miles away, records 11.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Totton’s 35.3.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 138 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Totton’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Totton sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Totton
Is Totton safe?
Police recorded 35.3 violent and sexual offences and 14.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Totton’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 21% of UK towns. Among 220 UK towns of 20,000 to 38,000 people, Totton is 122nd from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Totton?
By council ward, Totton Central, Totton South and Totton West record the least violent and household crime per resident: 19, 23.2 and 39.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 48.6 in Totton East.
Is crime going up in Totton?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 22%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 31%, shoplifting and theft fell 36% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Totton?
Violence & sexual offences: 825 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (198) and criminal damage & arson (152), with 218 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Totton compare with Southampton?
Southampton records 58.3 violent and sexual offences and 22.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Totton’s 35.3 and 14.7, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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