Crime Statistics for Bessacarr, Doncaster, Doncaster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bessacarr in September 2024. There were a total of 134 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bessacarr, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	45
Vehicle Crime	14
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Burglary	12
Public Order	9
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Shoplifting	9
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	6
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	134

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bessacarr. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bessacarr

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bessacarr and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bessacarr has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Intake (1.75 miles)	642
Belle Vue (1.39 miles)	238
Littleworth (1.96 miles)	226
Armthorpe (1.96 miles)	180
Doncaster Common (0.88 miles)	168
Bessacarr	134
New Rossington (2.48 miles)	132
Cantley (0.88 miles)	89
Nutwell (2.24 miles)	84
Auckley (2.48 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near Bessacarr?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bessacarr and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Littleworth	255
Intake	203
Armthorpe	148
Doncaster Common	92
New Rossington	84
Belle Vue	57
Bessacarr	45
Cantley	36
Nutwell	31
Auckley	21

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bessacarr?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bessacarr to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bessacarr compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bessacarr and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bessacarr is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hexthorpe & Balby North	91
2	Town	87
3	Edlington & Warmsworth	86
4	Wheatley Hills & Intake	82
5	Balby South	79
6	Hatfield	75
7	Bessacarr	66
8	Armthorpe	57
9	Tickhill & Wadsworth	56
10	Sprotbrough	54
11	Finningley	43

Which road in Bessacarr has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bessacarr with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.