Crime Statistics for Butterley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Butterley in September 2024. There were a total of 155 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Butterley, 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 Crime70
Anti Social Behaviour26
Public Order19
Criminal Damage Arson12
Other Theft7
Shoplifting6
Drugs5
Other Crime3
Burglary3
Theft From The Person2
Robbery1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime155

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 Butterley. 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 Butterley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Greenhillocks (1.24 miles)196
Codnor Gate (0.88 miles)164
Hammersmith (0.62 miles)163
Butterley155
Leabrooks (1.39 miles)90
Codnor (1.39 miles)89
Peasehill (1.24 miles)88
Codnor Park (1.86 miles)34
Lower Hartshay (1.24 miles)18
Upper Hartshay (1.39 miles)17

2.78%
of Ripley and Marehay residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Butterley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Greenhillocks145
Hammersmith76
Codnor Gate73
Butterley70
Peasehill52
Leabrooks45
Codnor40
Codnor Park14
Lower Hartshay8
Upper Hartshay6

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

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 Butterley 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 Butterley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Butterley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Butterley is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Ironville and Riddings40
2Ripley34
3Somercotes34
4Alfreton33
5Heanor and Loscoe26
6Ripley and Marehay20
7Codnor and Waingroves19
8Belper East12
9Wingfield12
10Swanwick6
11Heage and Ambergate6

Which road in Butterley has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Butterley 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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