Total Crime Rate
104.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
44.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Woodbine Avenue area has the 18th highest crime rate of 77 local areas in Spinney Hills , and the 378th highest crime rate of 942 local areas in Leicester .
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 Woodbine Avenue (LE2 1AJ) in the last 12 months was 104.1 per 1,000 residents and was 94.9% higher than the Spinney Hills average (53.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 17 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Burglary ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 24 (≈ 44.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -7.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -40.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Woodbine Avenue (LE2 1AJ), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Mill Hill Lane, where police recorded 150 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Parking Area (31 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Leicester| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Welland Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Highfield Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Severn Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Severn Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Severn Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Severn Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Severn Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Highfield Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Highfield Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Upper New Walk | — |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Victoria Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Welland Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Mill Hill Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Mill Hill Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Welland Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Welland Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Welland Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Welland Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gopsall Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Victoria Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hobart Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | St Albans Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Churchill Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Churchill Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mercury Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | St Albans Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | St Albans Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | St Albans Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | St Albans Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sparkenhoe Street | — |
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