Total Crime Rate
177.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
67.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Market Square area has the highest crime rate of 38 local areas in Flackwell Heath, Little Marlow and Marlow South East , and the 96th highest crime rate of 1,629 local areas in Buckinghamshire .
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 Market Square (SL7 1DA) in the last 12 months was 177.0 per 1,000 residents and was 267.1% higher than the Flackwell Heath, Little Marlow and Marlow South East average (48.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 13 offences recorded. The least common crime was Anti-social behaviour with 2 cases , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Shoplifting ( 62.5% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 14 (≈ 67.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 27.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -85.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Market Square (SL7 1DA), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 83 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Portland Gardens (26 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Marlow| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Theatre/Concert Hall | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Potts Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cromwell Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Chapel Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | High Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Portland Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Portland Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Portland Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Trinity Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Spittal Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Spittal Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Crown Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Trinity Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Potts Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Potts Place | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Town Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Dean Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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