Total Crime Rate
36.8 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
25.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Spring Road area has the 13th lowest crime rate of 67 local areas in Alexandra , and the 127th lowest crime rate of 429 local areas in Ipswich .
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 Spring Road (IP4 5NN) in the last 12 months was 36.8 per 1,000 residents and was 85.2% lower than the Alexandra average (248.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 6 offences recorded. The least common crime was Criminal damage and arson with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Criminal damage and arson ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 7 (≈ 25.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 75.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -85.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Spring Road (IP4 5NN), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Woodbridge Road, where police recorded 50 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Tokio Road (17 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Ipswich| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Petrol Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Springland Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Layard Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Layard Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Layard Close | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Woodbridge Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Petrol Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Woodbridge Road | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Oakstead Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Marlborough Road | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cornwallis Terrace | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Allington Close | Under investigation |
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