Total Crime Rate
100.6 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
64.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Highfield Road area has the 12th highest crime rate of 24 local areas in Northall , and the 299th highest crime rate of 1,075 local areas in North Northamptonshire .
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 Highfield Road (NN15 6HR) in the last 12 months was 100.6 per 1,000 residents and was 37.2% lower than the Northall average (160.3 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 16 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 500.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 21 (≈ 64.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 31.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -68.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Highfield Road (NN15 6HR), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Barnes Close, where police recorded 43 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Spring Rise (24 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Wicksteed| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Springfield Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Spring Rise | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Barnes Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Barnes Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hawson Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hawson Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hawson Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Springfield Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Spring Rise | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Spring Rise | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Highfield Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Springfield Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Highfield Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Glebe Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hawthorn Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Barnes Close | Under investigation |
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