Total Crime Rate
116.8 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
56.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Macclesfield Road area has the 10th highest crime rate of 47 local areas in Shirley North , and the 315th highest crime rate of 1,070 local areas in Croydon .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Macclesfield Road (SE25 4RY) in the last 12 months was 116.8 per 1,000 residents and was 51.4% higher than the Shirley North average (77.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 8 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Robbery ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 12 (≈ 56.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -25.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -33.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Macclesfield Road (SE25 4RY), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Woodside Way, where police recorded 40 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Grasmere Road (22 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Woodside| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Longhurst Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shoreham Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tudor Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Knole Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Knole Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Knole Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grasmere Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grasmere Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Woodside Way | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Longhurst Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Woodside Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Woodside Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shoreham Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Woodside Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Shoreham Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Medway Close | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Macclesfield Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Macclesfield Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Cumberland Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Long Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Long Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Estcourt Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Long Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Long Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rusthall Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Woodside Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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