Total Crime Rate
1443.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
879.8 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Quay Road area has the 4th highest crime rate of 61 local areas in Drake , and the 4th highest crime rate of 835 local areas in Plymouth .
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 Quay Road (PL1 2JZ) in the last 12 months was 1443.0 per 1,000 residents and was 1110.8% higher than the Drake average (119.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 121 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Criminal damage and arson ( 44.4% YoY). The sharpest decline was Vehicle crime ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 139 (≈ 879.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 16.8% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -46.6% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Quay Road (PL1 2JZ), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Moon Street, where police recorded 69 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Quay Road (36 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In St Peter and the Waterfront| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lower Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | How Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sutton Wharf | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Vauxhall Quay | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Vauxhall Quay | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Vauxhall Quay | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Lower Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Vauxhall Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Looe Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | How Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | How Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | How Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | How Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | How Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Kinterbury Street | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Kinterbury Street | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Kinterbury Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Kinterbury Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Kinterbury Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Higher Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Whimple Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Whimple Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | St Andrew Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | St Andrew Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Citadel Ope | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Nightclub | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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