Total Crime Rate
63.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
33.2 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Admiralty Street area has the 4th lowest crime rate of 44 local areas in St Peter and the Waterfront , and the 413th lowest crime rate of 835 local areas in Plymouth .
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 Admiralty Street (PL1 3RX) in the last 12 months was 63.1 per 1,000 residents and was 83.1% lower than the St Peter and the Waterfront average (372.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 9 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 33.3% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -10.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 10 (≈ 33.2 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -9.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -39.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Admiralty Street (PL1 3RX), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Durnford Street, where police recorded 20 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Mount Stone Road (11 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 | Shopping Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Pound Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Strand Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Durnford Street Ope | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Durnford Street Ope | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Admiralty Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Durnford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pound Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pound Street | — |
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