Total Crime Rate
387.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
166.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Cotswold Close area has the highest crime rate of 75 local areas in Baird , and the 18th highest crime rate of 285 local areas in Hastings .
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 Cotswold Close (TN34 3QJ) in the last 12 months was 387.2 per 1,000 residents and was 237.4% higher than the Baird average (114.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 34 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 150.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 39 (≈ 166.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 14.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -23.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Cotswold Close (TN34 3QJ), the main crime hotspot is near Quantock Gardens. Police recorded 41 crimes here, including 27 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Hastings| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pennine Rise | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Malvern Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Waterside Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Quantock Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Quantock Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Quantock Gardens | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Malvern Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Malvern Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Malvern Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Quantock Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Malvern Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Malvern Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Quantock Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Quantock Gardens | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Quantock Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Quantock Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Quantock Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Quantock Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pine Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Quantock Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pennine Rise | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Endeavour Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Endeavour Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Deepdene Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Deepdene Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Deepdene Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Deepdene Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pennine Rise | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mendip Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Pine Avenue | — |
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