Total Crime Rate

239.4 per 1,000 10/10 · Very High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 13.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 239.4 10/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 81.1 10/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 46.3 9/10
  • Vehicle crime 27.0 10/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 23.2 9/10
  • Other theft 15.4 9/10
  • Public order 15.4 9/10
  • Other crime 11.6 10/10
  • Burglary 7.7 7/10
  • Bicycle theft 3.9 6/10
  • Drugs 3.9 4/10
  • Possession of weapons 3.9 6/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Shoplifting 0.0 1/10
  • Theft from the person 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Maxwell Road area has the 25th highest crime rate of 62 local areas in Drake , and the 80th highest crime rate of 839 local areas in Plymouth .

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 Maxwell Road (PL4 0SN) in the last 12 months was 239.4 per 1,000 residents and was 86.6% higher than the Drake average (128.3 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 Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 140.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Drugs ( -66.7% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 26 (≈ 100.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -25.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Maxwell Road (PL4 0SN), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Oakfield Place, where police recorded 7 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Finnigan Road (4 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.

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Crime Over Time in Maxwell Road area

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Data Sources

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