Total Crime Rate
127.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
85.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026St Andrews Road area has the 33rd highest crime rate of 75 local areas in Coppins , and the 99th highest crime rate of 496 local areas in Tendring .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around St Andrews Road (CO15 3AP) in the last 12 months was 127.5 per 1,000 residents and was 10.9% higher than the Coppins average (115.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 29 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 45.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 30 (≈ 85.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 36.4% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -73.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around St Andrews Road (CO15 3AP), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 145 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Wellesley Road (49 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In St James| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Key Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wellesley Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Petrol Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Warwick Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Warwick Road | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Warwick Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Pier Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pier Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Wellesley Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Wellesley Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wellesley Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Key Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wellesley Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wellesley Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wellesley Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Warwick Crescent | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Empire Mews | — |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Empire Mews | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Empire Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cambridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Key Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Pier Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Page Road | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Key Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Cambridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Alexandra Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Alexandra Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Alexandra Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pier Avenue | — |
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