Total Crime Rate
50.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
34.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Egremont Road area has the 8th lowest crime rate of 23 local areas in Exmouth Town , and the 150th highest crime rate of 479 local areas in East Devon .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Egremont Road (EX8 1SA) in the last 12 months was 50.0 per 1,000 residents and was 60.0% lower than the Exmouth Town average (125.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 8 offences recorded. The least common crime was Anti-social behaviour with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Burglary ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 11 (≈ 34.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 22.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -33.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Egremont Road (EX8 1SA), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Market Street, where police recorded 63 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Park Road (20 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Church Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Market Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | New North Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Nightclub | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Nightclub | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | New North Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | New North Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | New North Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Market Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Market Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Woodville Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Market Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Exmouth | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Bus/Coach Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Marine Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Bus/Coach Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parade | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lawn Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parade | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parade | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Albion Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Meadow Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Leslie Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Danby Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | New North Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Woodville Road | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Market Street | Under investigation |
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