Total Crime Rate

80.5 per 1,000 7/10 · High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 13.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 80.5 7/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 27.9 6/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 12.4 6/10
  • Public order 12.4 8/10
  • Drugs 9.3 8/10
  • Burglary 6.2 6/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 6.2 5/10
  • Shoplifting 6.2 4/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Other crime 0.0 1/10
  • Other theft 0.0 1/10
  • Possession of weapons 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Theft from the person 0.0 1/10
  • Vehicle crime 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Lake Road area has the 20th highest crime rate of 106 local areas in Bowness and Lyth , and the 152nd highest crime rate of 774 local areas in Westmorland and Furness .

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 Lake Road (LA22 0DB) in the last 12 months was 80.5 per 1,000 residents and was 8.1% lower than the Bowness and Lyth average (87.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 9 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 2 cases , down -33.3% compared to 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 300.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -71.4% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 13 (≈ 40.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -7.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -57.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Lake Road (LA22 0DB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Cheapside, where police recorded 14 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near King Street (7 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

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Crime Over Time in Lake Road area

Showing crimes within 0.3 miles (1/1)
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MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences The Slack Under investigation
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Data Sources

StreetScan crime figures are based on official UK open data:

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