Total Crime Rate
418.9 per 1,000
All offences · Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Violent Crime Rate
159.3 per 1,000
Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Chequer Road area has the 14th highest crime rate of 68 local areas in Hexthorpe & Balby North , and the 48th highest crime rate of 1,002 local areas in Doncaster .
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 Chequer Road (DN1 2AN) in the last 12 months was 418.9 per 1,000 residents and was 86.9% higher than the Hexthorpe & Balby North average (224.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 43 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , down -50.0% compared to 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Robbery ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Possession of weapons ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 54 (≈ 159.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -12.9% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -33.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Chequer Road (DN1 2AN), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Carr House Road, where police recorded 51 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Apley Road (21 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Hexthorpe & Balby North| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Apley Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Burglary | North Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Somerset Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | South Street | — |
| Oct 2025 | Burglary | South Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Childers Street | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Childers Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Elmfield Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Elmfield Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Vehicle crime | North Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Stockil Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Apley Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Rainton Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Carr House Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Cooper Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Robbery | Carr House Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Carr House Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Carr House Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Rainton Road | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Rainton Road | — |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Rainton Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beechfield Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beechfield Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beechfield Road | Local resolution |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beechfield Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Beechfield Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Beechfield Road | — |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Apley Road | — |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Beechfield Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Town Fields | Under investigation |
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