Total Crime Rate

21.3 per 1,000 2/10 · Very Low

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 05.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 21.3 2/10
  • Bicycle theft 9.1 9/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 6.1 2/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 3.0 1/10
  • Other theft 3.0 2/10
  • Burglary 0.0 1/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 0.0 1/10
  • Drugs 0.0 1/10
  • Other crime 0.0 1/10
  • Possession of weapons 0.0 1/10
  • Public order 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Shoplifting 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

Hydra Walk area has the 12th lowest crime rate of 80 local areas in Spinney Hills , and the 78th lowest crime rate of 954 local areas in Leicester .

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 Hydra Walk (LE2 0UY) in the last 12 months was 21.3 per 1,000 residents and was 64.0% lower than the Spinney Hills average (59.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Bicycle theft with 3 offences recorded. The least common crime was Anti-social behaviour with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2024.

Violent crimes totalled 2 (≈ 6.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 100.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -75.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Hydra Walk (LE2 0UY), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 73 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Severn Street (27 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

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Crime Over Time in Hydra Walk area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Gopsall Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Burglary Sparkenhoe Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Sparkenhoe Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Drugs Sparkenhoe Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Oxendon Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Oxendon Street
Sep 2025Other theft Petrol Station Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Barnard Close Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Apollo Close Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Pluto Close Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Oxendon Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Guthlaxton Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Drugs Guthlaxton Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Guthlaxton Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Pluto Close
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Gopsall Street
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Stoughton Street South Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Public order Jupiter Close Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Jupiter Close Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Mercury Close Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Oxendon Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Mercury Close Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Diseworth Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Formal action is not in the public interest
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Seymour Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Other crime Seymour Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Derwent Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Duffield Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Other theft Derwent Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified

Data Sources

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