Total Crime Rate
131.7 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
75.2 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Raven Street area has the 23rd highest crime rate of 60 local areas in Brookfield , and the 144th highest crime rate of 447 local areas in Preston .
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 Raven Street (PR1 6XU) in the last 12 months was 131.7 per 1,000 residents and was 16.0% lower than the Brookfield average (156.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 23 offences recorded. The least common crime was Drugs with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 50.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 24 (≈ 75.2 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 9.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -91.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Raven Street (PR1 6XU), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Clifton Crescent, where police recorded 44 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Harewood Road (18 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Preston| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Exe Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Primrose Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Poynter Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Exe Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Isherwood Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Isherwood Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rufus Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Eccles Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Clifton Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Clifton Crescent | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Clifton Crescent | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cam Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Primrose Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Andrew Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Primrose Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Primrose Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Primrose Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Penguin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Penguin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Penguin Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Penguin Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Penguin Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Exe Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Exe Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Poynter Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Rufus Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Holman Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Dodgson Place | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Dodgson Place | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Holman Street | Under investigation |
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