Total Crime Rate
426.9 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
176.3 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Holyrood Street area has the highest crime rate of 69 local areas in Chard North , and the 51st highest crime rate of 1,847 local areas in Somerset .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Holyrood Street (TA20 2DN) in the last 12 months was 426.9 per 1,000 residents and was 334.8% higher than the Chard North average (98.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 64 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other theft ( -15.4% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 76 (≈ 176.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 5.6% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -42.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Holyrood Street (TA20 2DN), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 74 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Silver Street (41 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Chard South| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Commercial Row | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crowshute | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Commercial Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Commercial Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Commercial Row | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Commercial Row | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | St Mary'S Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Essex Close | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Silver Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Silver Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Silver Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Montague Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bath Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Holyrood Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bath Square | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Crowshute | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Essex Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Essex Close | — |
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