Portchester Castle
WardEast Fareham. About 7,591 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Portchester Castle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Portchester Castle compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Portchester Castle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Portchester Castle at a rate of 45.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 61.1 per 1,000 people across Fareham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 37 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Portchester Castle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (130), anti-social behaviour (63) and shoplifting (47).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Fareham
These figures are published for the whole of Fareham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Fareham and not Portchester Castle alone. See Fareham
Portchester Castle in brief
Portchester Castle had 7,449 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Portchester Castle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Portchester Castle, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Portchester Castle, 1.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.