Total Crime Rate
219.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
118.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Minstead Avenue area has the 13th highest crime rate of 89 local areas in Cherryfield , and the 44th highest crime rate of 495 local areas in Knowsley .
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 Minstead Avenue (L33 5YB) in the last 12 months was 219.2 per 1,000 residents and was 158.0% higher than the Cherryfield average (85.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 24 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 33.3% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -66.7% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 26 (≈ 118.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -16.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -23.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Minstead Avenue (L33 5YB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Westhead Close, where police recorded 25 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Overdene Walk (13 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Northwood| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Glegside Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Overdene Walk | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Waverley Crescent | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Waverley Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ashfield Crescent | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Burnard Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Didsbury Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Overdene Walk | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Madryn Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Waverley Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Madryn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Westhead Walk | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Lifton Road | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Madryn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Farrier Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Farrier Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Waverley Crescent | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Burwell Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Gerard Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ashfield Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Petrol Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ashfield Crescent | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Ashfield Crescent | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ormonde Crescent | Under investigation |
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