Total Crime Rate
64.9 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
35.8 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Swan Gardens area has the 44th lowest crime rate of 170 local areas in Central , and the 229th lowest crime rate of 627 local areas in Peterborough .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Swan Gardens (PE1 4SB) in the last 12 months was 64.9 per 1,000 residents and was 81.6% lower than the Central average (353.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 21 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 21 (≈ 35.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 31.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -60.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Swan Gardens (PE1 4SB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 88 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Colwyn Avenue (14 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Dogsthorpe| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Eames Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Colwyn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Petrol Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Petrol Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Barrowfield | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Eames Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Colwyn Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Colwyn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Colwyn Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Colwyn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Colwyn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Colwyn Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Colwyn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Colwyn Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Colwyn Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lyvelly Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Barrowfield | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Blandford Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Aldsworth Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Sherborne Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Swan Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Franklin Crescent | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
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