Crime Statistics for Heeley, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2025

Is Heeley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 310 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Heeley, 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	65
Shoplifting	65
Anti Social Behaviour	40
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Vehicle Crime	24
Public Order	19
Other Theft	19
Burglary	15
Other Crime	12
Drugs	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	310

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Heeley. 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 Heeley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norton Lees	665
Sharrow (0.88 miles)	643
Highfield (0.62 miles)	500
Norton Woodseats (1.24 miles)	468
Bolehill (1.24 miles)	417
Heeley	310
Carter Knowle (1.24 miles)	288
Hemsworth (0.88 miles)	233
Norton (1.24 miles)	171
Nether Edge (1.24 miles)	168

Where are the most violent places near Heeley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norton Lees	336
Sharrow	186
Highfield	136
Bolehill	119
Norton Woodseats	110
Norton	93
Hemsworth	84
Heeley	65
Carter Knowle	62
Nether Edge	33

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

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 Heeley 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 Heeley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Heeley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Heeley is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Park and Arbourthorne	83
2	Richmond	81
3	Manor Castle	80
4	Gleadless Valley	76
5	City	75
6	Beauchief and Greenhill	64
7	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
8	Walkley	56
9	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52
10	Graves Park	49
11	Ecclesall	35

Which road in Heeley has the highest level of crime?

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