Crime in LE5 5BE
How much crime is recorded in LE5 5BE, what kind, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
- Neighbourhood
- Highfields South
- Council
- Leicester
- Region
- East Midlands
- Neighbourhood population
- 1,565 (2024)
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How safe is LE5 5BE
Higher-harm crime (violence, robbery, burglary, vehicle crime and weapons offences) runs at 30.9 offences per 1,000 people a year in the LE5 5BE area, broadly in line with the 31.1 average across England and Wales. That puts it in band 6 of 10 against all neighbourhoods.
Around the middle of neighbourhoods in England and Wales.
What crime is recorded
Recorded offences per 1,000 people a year (counting both residents and people who work locally, or per 1,000 households for burglary).
Higher-harm crime over time
It has risen 16% since 2022.
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, resolved to neighbourhoods. Rates cover September 2025 to August 2026, the latest twelve months published.