Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in PL3 5
The PL3 5 postcode sector, in the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, with most records published by Devon and Cornwall Police.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 485 street-crime records for PL3 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 14.3% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 54.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 81.8 for Devon and Cornwall Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
485
Share of PL3
22.0%
Year-on-year
-14.3%
PL3 5 holds 22.0% of the 2,204 records assigned to PL3 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
43
October 2025
61
November 2025
25
December 2025
45
January 2026
26
February 2026
33
March 2026
33
April 2026
54
May 2026
34
June 2026
45
July 2026
48
August 2026
38
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
PL3 5
54.2
Devon and Cornwall Police
81.8
485 records and 8,942 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Devon and Cornwall Police.
Category
PL3 5
PL3
Force
Violence and sexual offences
51.5%
46.1%
45.9%
Criminal damage and arson
10.5%
9.3%
9.2%
Public order
8.5%
6.0%
6.3%
Other theft
6.8%
8.1%
7.3%
Shoplifting
4.9%
6.3%
7.0%
Anti-social behaviour
4.7%
9.9%
11.9%
Burglary
3.9%
2.3%
2.5%
Other crime
2.7%
2.9%
2.2%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for PL3 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
379
2022
384
2023
299
2024
514
2025
541
2026 (part year)
311
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 8,942 Census 2021 residents of PL3 5.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 73.2% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
0%3
0%4
3%5
5%6
0%7
19%8
41%9
32%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
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