Total Crime Rate
3.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
3.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Shelley Drive area has the lowest crime rate of 25 local areas in Willaston and Rope , and the 16th lowest crime rate of 1,263 local areas in Cheshire East .
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 Shelley Drive (CW2 8DW) in the last 12 months was 3.5 per 1,000 residents and was 89.2% lower than the Willaston and Rope average (32.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Public order with 1 offences recorded. The least common crime was Public order with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. Overall, crime levels by type were broadly flat compared to 2025, with no category showing a clear year-on-year rise or fall.
Violent crimes totalled 1 (≈ 3.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -73.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Shelley Drive (CW2 8DW), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Woodside Lane, where police recorded 7 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Spencer Close (5 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Wistaston| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Spencer Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Milne Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Woodside Lane | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Waldron Gardens | Under investigation |
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