Total Crime Rate
83.9 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
54.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Larch Road area has the 24th highest crime rate of 54 local areas in Bridgewater , and the 161st highest crime rate of 406 local areas in Halton .
The streets immediately around this postcode mostly have high or very high crime levels, and on average the bordering areas are much more affected by crime than this postcode itself.
The overall crime rate in the area around Larch Road (WA7 5HY) in the last 12 months was 83.9 per 1,000 residents and was 21.1% lower than the Bridgewater average (106.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 12 offences recorded. The least common crime was Anti-social behaviour with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 15 (≈ 54.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 15.4% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -67.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Larch Road (WA7 5HY), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 42 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Thorn Road (30 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Grange| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Poplar Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pine Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Larch Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Thorn Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Thorn Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Thorn Road | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Thorn Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Thorn Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Thorn Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Ash Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Thorn Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Bamford Close | Under investigation |
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