Total Crime Rate
297.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
115.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Marrowbone Slip area has the 19th highest crime rate of 61 local areas in Drake , and the 55th highest crime rate of 835 local areas in Plymouth .
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 Marrowbone Slip (PL4 0HX) in the last 12 months was 297.1 per 1,000 residents and was 149.3% 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 57 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -18.2% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 67 (≈ 115.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 11.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -65.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Marrowbone Slip (PL4 0HX), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Whitefriars Lane, where police recorded 121 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Moon Street (26 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Sutton and Mount Gould| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lower Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Friary Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Gasking Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Gasking Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Gasking Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Vauxhall Quay | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Vauxhall Quay | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Whitefriars Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Whitefriars Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hawkers Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hawkers Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Nightclub | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parr Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parr Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parr Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Friary Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Gasking Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Friary Street | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Moon Street | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Moon Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Moon Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Whitefriars Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Whitefriars Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Nightclub | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Nightclub | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Whitefriars Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sutton Wharf | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parsonage Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Lower Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Whitefriars Lane | Under investigation |
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