Total Crime Rate

112.5 per 1,000 8/10 · 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 112.5 8/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 36.5 7/10
  • Vehicle crime 21.3 10/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 15.2 8/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 12.2 6/10
  • Public order 12.2 8/10
  • Other theft 6.1 6/10
  • Bicycle theft 3.0 3/10
  • Burglary 3.0 2/10
  • Drugs 3.0 3/10
  • Other crime 0.0 1/10
  • Possession of weapons 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

Rowley Fields Avenue area has the 27th lowest crime rate of 66 local areas in Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields , and the 363rd highest crime rate of 954 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 Rowley Fields Avenue (LE3 2ES) in the last 12 months was 112.5 per 1,000 residents and was 22.1% lower than the Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields average (144.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 12 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 300.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -33.3% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 16 (≈ 48.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -20.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -63.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Rowley Fields Avenue (LE3 2ES), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Further/Higher Educational Building, where police recorded 29 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Foxcroft Close (13 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

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Crime Over Time in Rowley Fields Avenue area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Sybil Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Robbery Foxcroft Close Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Dumbleton Avenue
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Barbara Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Barbara Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Foxcroft Close
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Further/Higher Educational Building Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Lindsay Road Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Robbery Foxcroft Close Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Alvaston Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Alvaston Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Further/Higher Educational Building Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Sybil Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Sybil Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Other crime Sybil Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Further/Higher Educational Building Under investigation

Data Sources

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