Total Crime Rate
421.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
188.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Gurney Road area has the 6th highest crime rate of 76 local areas in Balby South , and the 45th highest crime rate of 1,001 local areas in Doncaster .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Gurney Road (DN4 8LA) in the last 12 months was 421.2 per 1,000 residents and was 161.3% higher than the Balby South average (161.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 47 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Robbery ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Burglary ( -16.7% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 55 (≈ 188.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 10.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -83.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Gurney Road (DN4 8LA), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Byron Avenue, where police recorded 50 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Hospital (27 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Doncaster| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lowell Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Lambeth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Suffolk Road | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Suffolk Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Swinburne Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Swinburne Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Swinburne Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Lambeth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lambeth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Surrey Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lambeth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gray Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Newbolt Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Weston Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Weston Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Weston Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Weston Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Weston Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Surrey Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Norfolk Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Byron Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Byron Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Burns Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Keats Road | — |
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