Total Crime Rate
364.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
179.2 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Greyhound Trading Park area has the 10th highest crime rate of 33 local areas in Victoria , and the 34th highest crime rate of 523 local areas in Southend-on-Sea .
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 Greyhound Trading Park (SS2 5PY) in the last 12 months was 364.2 per 1,000 residents and was 47.6% higher 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 51 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 50.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -58.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 62 (≈ 179.2 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -15.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -71.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Greyhound Trading Park (SS2 5PY), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 228 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Coleman Street (77 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 | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Maple Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coleman Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coleman Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Prittlewell Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Prittlewell Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Prittlewell Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Prittlewell Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prittlewell Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Bircham Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Short Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Essex Street | Offender given a caution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coleman Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coleman Street | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coleman Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
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