Charles Dickens
WardWest Portsmouth. About 23,655 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 54% of people in Charles Dickens live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Charles Dickens compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Charles Dickens safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Charles Dickens at a rate of 255.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 126.7 per 1,000 people across Portsmouth.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 565 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Charles Dickens.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,228), other crime (1,210) and anti-social behaviour (724).
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 Portsmouth
These figures are published for the whole of Portsmouth, not for each ward, so they describe all of Portsmouth and not Charles Dickens alone. See Portsmouth
Charles Dickens in brief
Charles Dickens had 22,323 usual residents at the census.
About 54% of people in Charles Dickens live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Charles Dickens, 92.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Charles Dickens, 7.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.