Total Crime Rate

120.5 per 1,000 8/10 · 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 120.5 8/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 42.4 8/10
  • Vehicle crime 16.3 9/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 13.0 6/10
  • Other theft 13.0 9/10
  • Drugs 9.8 8/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 6.5 5/10
  • Other crime 6.5 8/10
  • Public order 6.5 5/10
  • Bicycle theft 3.3 4/10
  • Burglary 3.3 3/10
  • 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

Beech Avenue area has the 11th highest crime rate of 35 local areas in Headlands , and the 246th highest crime rate of 1,265 local areas in West 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 Beech Avenue (NN3 2HE) in the last 12 months was 120.5 per 1,000 residents and was 27.1% higher than the Headlands average (94.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 13 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Anti-social behaviour ( -50.0% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 15 (≈ 48.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 87.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 48.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Beech Avenue (NN3 2HE), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 110 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Cedar Road East (24 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

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Crime Over Time in Beech Avenue area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Awaiting court outcome
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Awaiting court outcome
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Wheatfield Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Other theft Wheatfield Road South Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Wheatfield Close Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Wheatfield Close Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Wheatfield Close Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Wheatfield Close Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Wheatfield Close
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Wheatfield Close
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Awaiting court outcome
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Briton Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Briton Gardens Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Drugs Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Under investigation
Sep 2025Shoplifting Supermarket Awaiting court outcome
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Cedar Road East Under investigation
Sep 2025Possession of weapons Cedar Road East Under investigation

Data Sources

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