Total Crime Rate
310.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
208.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Queen Street area has the 3rd highest crime rate of 47 local areas in Middlewich , and the 34th highest crime rate of 1,263 local areas in Cheshire East .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Queen Street (CW10 9AR) in the last 12 months was 310.2 per 1,000 residents and was 312.3% higher than the Middlewich average (75.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 32 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 33.3% YoY). The sharpest decline was Criminal damage and arson ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 39 (≈ 208.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -22.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -67.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Queen Street (CW10 9AR), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 54 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Wheelock Street (27 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Middlewich| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wheelock Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lewin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Supermarket | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Queen Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Sandown Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Wallcroft Gardens | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stallard Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pepper Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Beech Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Dierdens Terrace | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wheelock Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wheelock Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Lawrence Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Darlington Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wheelock Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Civic Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Civic Way | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
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