About average for the local authority, give or take. Roughly 89 incidents per thousand residents over the last twelve months. Around 6,300 incidents in total across the peninsula. That puts Gosport about 8% above the borough's wider figure, which is close enough to count as the average rather than a meaningful deviation. The geometry concentrates most of the volume into the town-centre, ferry and A32 corridors; the inland streets run quieter.
Roughly 6,300 incidents across the peninsula over twelve months works out at about 89 per thousand residents, against the wider local authority figure of around 82 per thousand. The eight-percent gap is small enough that the rate categorisation classes Gosport as 'at' the local average rather than meaningfully above it. The headline is unremarkable. The distribution is what does the explaining. Town-centre, ferry-side and main-road postcodes carry the bulk of the volume, because that is where people gather, where the bars and ferry terminal sit, and where the through-traffic moves. The inland residential streets, the estates running through Bridgemary, Rowner and Elson, and the sub-areas around Alverstoke, run noticeably below the headline rate. That is geography, not vigilance. It is the same pattern in every harbour-mouth town on the south coast: a noisy spine, a quieter periphery, and a single headline number that does not tell you which is which. For a buyer or renter, the practical safety conversation is the one held in every working town with a single mainstream through-route. Pay attention to where the bars and transport hubs are. Pay less attention to where the headline rate falls. The streets in the centre carry the night-time noise that produces most of the incident counts. The streets several minutes' walk inland do not. Buyers who care about the difference walk the streets after dark before they exchange, which is more informative than any league table.
Average overall. Gosport does not announce itself on a crime map, and it does not pretend to be Lymington either. Pick the street, not the postcode.