Total Crime Rate
3.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
3.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Higher Barn Road area has the lowest crime rate of 55 local areas in Dinting , and the lowest crime rate of 304 local areas in High Peak .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Higher Barn Road (SK13 2ES) in the last 12 months was 3.1 per 1,000 residents and was 94.5% lower than the Dinting average (55.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 1 offences recorded. The least common crime was Violence and sexual offences with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. Overall, crime levels by type were broadly flat compared to 2025, with no category showing a clear year-on-year rise or fall.
Violent crimes totalled 1 (≈ 3.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -11.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Higher Barn Road (SK13 2ES), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Mersey Bank Road, where police recorded 13 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near The Grove (9 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Hadfield South| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Etherow Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | The Carriage Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hillside Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Barleycroft | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Wheatcroft | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | The Carriage Drive | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | The Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | The Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Mersey Bank Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | John Dalton Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Peakview | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Pear Tree Close | Under investigation |
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