Yes, and the gap to the borough average is not close. About 410 recorded incidents over the past twelve months. That works out at roughly 34 per thousand residents per year. The Havant local-authority average runs at about 85 per thousand. Cowplain sits roughly 60% below the borough figure, which puts it firmly in the safer end of the postcodes in south Hampshire.
The rate of around 34 incidents per thousand residents covers the year from spring 2025 to spring 2026, so it is the most recent full window the published data offers. Four hundred and ten incidents across a place of roughly ten thousand people is the kind of figure that, broken down by week, comes out somewhere in single digits per seven days. That includes everything the police record in a postcode: anti-social behaviour calls, low-level shoplifting on what high street the area has, the occasional burglary, the occasional vehicle crime, and the smaller pile of more serious matters that get the headlines. The mix matters more than the headline, and the mix here is dominated by the low-severity end.
The contrast with the Havant local-authority figure is what makes the picture clear. The borough's published rate of about 85 incidents per thousand is itself broadly in line with most south-coast areas, neither alarming nor reassuring on its own. Cowplain coming in at roughly 40 percent of that number is what the data is actually saying. The borough's higher-volume crime is concentrated in its bigger town centres and its denser post-war estates further south, not in the A3-corridor villages above Waterlooville. A village of owner-occupiers, with about half the households running more than one car and the median age sitting in the late forties, is not the kind of place that produces a busy crime map.
The pattern of crime in a place like Cowplain follows what you would expect from a settled commuter-belt village. Incidents tend to cluster where you would expect them to cluster in any village laid out along a busy A-road, around the through-traffic and whatever small retail strip the village has, rather than on the residential side-streets back from it. There is no nighttime economy of any size to speak of, no concentration of bars or clubs to pull weekend trouble in, and no train station to deliver late-night arrivals that change a town's crime profile after dark.
What the rate cannot tell you is what your own street feels like at ten in the evening, which is the test most people actually use when they buy a house. A village-level average is the right answer to the question of whether the postcode reads safe on the published dashboard. The walk from the car to the front door after dark is a different question, and the only honest way to test it is to do the walk on a Friday night and a Tuesday night before committing to the address.
The verdict on safety is excellent, scoring a five out of five on the data. Cowplain runs at roughly four in ten of the borough's crime rate, on a population of about ten thousand, in the kind of village where the weekly incident count is small enough to be unremarkable.