Total Crime Rate
111.4 per 1,000
All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025Lizard Close area has the 36th highest crime rate of 144 local areas in Budshead , and the 264th 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 Lizard Close (PL6 6EX) in the last 12 months was 111.4 per 1,000 residents and was 15.0% higher than the Budshead average (96.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 28 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 30 (≈ 81.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -3.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -28.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Lizard Close (PL6 6EX), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 25 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Fleetwood Gardens (18 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Budshead| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Langley Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Stroma Close | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Lizard Close | — |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Langley Close | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Cromer Close | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Inchkeith Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Cromer Close | — |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Stroma Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Inchkeith Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other crime | Langley Crescent | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Whitehaven Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Other crime | Bardsey Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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