Total Crime Rate
60.7 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
53.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Eliot Mews area has the 5th lowest crime rate of 33 local areas in Victoria , and the 254th lowest crime rate of 523 local areas in Southend-on-Sea .
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 Eliot Mews (SS2 5EL) in the last 12 months was 60.7 per 1,000 residents and was 75.4% lower than the Victoria average (246.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 14 offences recorded. The least common crime was Anti-social behaviour with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Public order ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 15 (≈ 53.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 7.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -84.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Eliot Mews (SS2 5EL), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Glenhurst Road, where police recorded 133 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Wentworth Road (35 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Southend-On-Sea| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Redstock Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Dryden Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Wordsworth Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Wordsworth Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tennyson Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Dryden Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Dryden Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Dryden Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Redstock Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Cedar Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Cromwell Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wordsworth Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cromwell Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Maple Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Ruskin Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sycamore Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Dryden Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Dryden Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Dryden Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wentworth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Wentworth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Oakhurst Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Wentworth Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Gayton Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oakhurst Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Glenhurst Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Glenhurst Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Glenhurst Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Glenhurst Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Glenhurst Road | Under investigation |
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