Total Crime Rate
86.8 per 1,000
All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025Crosslands Close area has the 17th highest crime rate of 35 local areas in Howard Town , and the 84th highest crime rate of 303 local areas in High Peak .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Crosslands Close (SK13 8PB) in the last 12 months was 86.8 per 1,000 residents and was 50.2% lower than the Howard Town average (174.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 13 offences recorded. The least common crime was Criminal damage and arson with 1 case , unchanged from 2022. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 225.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2022.
Violent crimes totalled 13 (≈ 59.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 160.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -9.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Crosslands Close (SK13 8PB), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Shopping Area, where police recorded 58 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Highfield Road (20 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Howard Town| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Highfield Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Awaiting court outcome |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Petrol Station | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Gladstone Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Ebenezer Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Whitfield Avenue | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Shopping Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Whitfield Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Whitfield Avenue | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Whitfield Avenue | — |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Highfield Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Uplands Road | — |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Uplands Road | — |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Uplands Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Mill Street | — |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Gladstone Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Cliffe Road | — |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Petrol Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
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