Total Crime Rate

219.8 per 1,000 10/10 · Very High

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 219.8 10/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 74.2 9/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 55.0 10/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 19.2 9/10
  • Other theft 16.5 9/10
  • Public order 16.5 9/10
  • Burglary 11.0 9/10
  • Vehicle crime 11.0 8/10
  • Other crime 8.2 9/10
  • Drugs 5.5 6/10
  • Possession of weapons 2.8 3/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Shoplifting 0.0 1/10
  • Theft from the person 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

Latimer Street area has the 23rd highest crime rate of 81 local areas in Fosse , and the 140th highest crime rate of 954 local areas in Leicester .

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 Latimer Street (LE3 0QE) in the last 12 months was 219.8 per 1,000 residents and was 72.9% higher than the Fosse average (127.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 27 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 300.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Vehicle crime ( -42.9% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 34 (≈ 93.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 13.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 16.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Latimer Street (LE3 0QE), the main crime hotspot is near Norman Street. Police recorded 75 crimes here, including 37 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.

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Crime Over Time in Latimer Street area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Drugs Saxon Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Musgrove Close Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Tyndale Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Drugs Tyndale Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Tyndale Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Norfolk Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Public order Briton Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Shaftesbury Road
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Shaftesbury Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shaftesbury Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Drugs Briton Street Formal action is not in the public interest
Sep 2025Burglary Latimer Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Public order Celt Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Catesby Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Burglary Celt Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Celt Street
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Paton Street
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Fosse Road Central Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Andrewes Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Possession of weapons Norman Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Norman Street Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Theft from the person Norman Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Norman Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Norman Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Andrewes Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Roman Street
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Saxon Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Roman Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Shoplifting Kate Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Public order Cranmer Street Local resolution

Data Sources

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