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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime45
Vehicle Crime14
Anti Social Behaviour13
Burglary12
Public Order9
Criminal Damage Arson9
Shoplifting9
Other Theft8
Other Crime6
Drugs4
Possession Of Weapons3
Robbery1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime134

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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Intake (1.75 miles)1074
Belle Vue (1.39 miles)238
Armthorpe (1.96 miles)180
Doncaster Common (0.88 miles)168
Bessacarr134
Littleworth (1.96 miles)97
Cantley (0.88 miles)89
Nutwell (2.24 miles)73
New Rossington (2.48 miles)70
Auckley (2.48 miles)30

13.22%
of Bessacarr residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Intake361
Armthorpe148
Doncaster Common92
Belle Vue57
Bessacarr45
Littleworth45
Cantley36
New Rossington35
Nutwell27
Auckley21

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.

#WardScore
1Hexthorpe & Balby North91
2Town87
3Edlington & Warmsworth86
4Wheatley Hills & Intake82
5Balby South79
6Hatfield75
7Bessacarr66
8Armthorpe57
9Tickhill & Wadsworth56
10Sprotbrough54
11Finningley43

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.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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