Total Crime Rate
140.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
53.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Lindale Close area has the 7th highest crime rate of 50 local areas in Barkingside , and the 147th highest crime rate of 745 local areas in Redbridge .
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 Lindale Close (IG4 5FB) in the last 12 months was 140.5 per 1,000 residents and was 122.7% higher than the Barkingside average (63.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 22 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 133.3% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 26 (≈ 53.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 30.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -65.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Lindale Close (IG4 5FB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Sussex Close, where police recorded 29 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Gosford Gardens (15 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Barkingside| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Inglehurst Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grangeway Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gosford Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gosford Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ridgeway Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gosford Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Grangeway Gardens | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Petrol Station | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grangeway Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Crombie Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gosford Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Grasmere Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Radnor Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Woodford Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Woodford Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Woodford Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Windermere Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crombie Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grangeway Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Petrol Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Lindale Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Danehurst Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Redbridge Lane East | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Danehurst Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Ellesmere Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lindale Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lindale Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Windermere Gardens | Under investigation |
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