Total Crime Rate
460.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
138.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Westwick Drive area has the 4th highest crime rate of 25 local areas in Hartsholme , and the 22nd highest crime rate of 315 local areas in Lincoln .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Westwick Drive (LN6 7RF) in the last 12 months was 460.5 per 1,000 residents and was 469.3% higher than the Hartsholme average (80.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 67 offences recorded. The least common crime was Drugs with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Vehicle crime ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 49 (≈ 138.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 4.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 22.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Westwick Drive (LN6 7RF), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Moorland Avenue, where police recorded 111 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Blackbourn Road (38 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Lincoln| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prial Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Prial Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bell Grove | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prial Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prial Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prial Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Prial Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Prial Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prial Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Blackbourn Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Moorland Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Moorland Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Moorland Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Moorland Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Moorland Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Westwick Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Bell Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Blackbourn Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Westwick Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moorland Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | St Helen'S Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Westwick Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Westwick Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | George Boole Drive | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | George Boole Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | George Boole Drive | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moorland Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Blackbourn Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moorland Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Moorland Avenue | Under investigation |
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