Total Crime Rate
95.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
11.9 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Queensway area has the 40th highest crime rate of 92 local areas in Brickhill and Queensway , and the 321st highest crime rate of 1,075 local areas in North Northamptonshire .
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 Queensway (NN8 3SF) in the last 12 months was 95.2 per 1,000 residents and was 10.5% lower than the Brickhill and Queensway average (106.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 18 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Violent crimes ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -10.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 3 (≈ 11.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 200.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 109.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Queensway (NN8 3SF), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Tennyson Road, where police recorded 22 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Cowper Road (9 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Brickhill and Queensway| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stanwell Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Tennyson Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | First Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Tennyson Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Tennyson Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Tennyson Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Tennyson Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Tennyson Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Chaucer Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Chaucer Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Chaucer Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Cowper Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Milton Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Milton Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Scott Road | Under investigation |
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