Crime Statistics for Swinton, Rotherham, Rotherham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Swinton in September 2024. There were a total of 123 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 Swinton, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Public Order	12
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Crime	7
Other Theft	5
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Drugs	3
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	123

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 Swinton. 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 Swinton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wath-upon-Dearne (1.75 miles)	232
Rawmarsh (1.75 miles)	189
Swinton Bridge (0.88 miles)	179
Ryecroft (1.39 miles)	171
Bow Broom (0.62 miles)	128
Swinton	123
Old Denaby (1.96 miles)	94
Kilnhurst (0.88 miles)	71
Newhill (1.39 miles)	66
Abdy (1.24 miles)	61

Where are the most violent places near Swinton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wath-upon-Dearne	109
Swinton Bridge	77
Rawmarsh	59
Bow Broom	55
Swinton	50
Ryecroft	49
Kilnhurst	36
Old Denaby	35
Abdy	29
Newhill	25

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

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 Swinton 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 Swinton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Swinton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Swinton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rotherham East	88
2	Mexborough	86
3	Wingfield	86
4	Rawmarsh	78
5	Valley	75
6	Dearne South	74
7	Boston Castle	71
8	Swinton	69
9	Wath	68
10	Silverwood	63
11	Wickersley	52

Which road in Swinton has the highest level of crime?

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