Crime Statistics for Alvaston, Derby, City of Derby, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Alvaston in October 2024. There were a total of 385 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 Alvaston, 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	160
Anti Social Behaviour	58
Public Order	34
Other Theft	26
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Shoplifting	19
Burglary	18
Vehicle Crime	16
Drugs	9
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	8
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	385

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Litchurch (1.75 miles)	1034
Boulton (0.62 miles)	490
Crewton (0.62 miles)	429
Alvaston	385
Pear Tree (1.86 miles)	380
Boulton Moor (0.62 miles)	343
Shelton Lock (1.39 miles)	237
Allenton (1.39 miles)	236
Spondon (1.76 miles)	104
Thulston (1.75 miles)	53

Where are the most violent places near Alvaston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Litchurch	400
Boulton	253
Crewton	181
Pear Tree	164
Alvaston	160
Boulton Moor	145
Shelton Lock	98
Allenton	88
Spondon	30
Thulston	18

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

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 Alvaston 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 Alvaston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Alvaston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Alvaston is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Arboretum	81
2	Normanton	66
3	Boulton	65
4	Alvaston	63
5	Sinfin	56
6	Aston	44
7	Chaddesden	39
8	Stenson	38
9	Chellaston	32
10	Ockbrook & Borrowash	23
11	Spondon	20

Which road in Alvaston has the highest level of crime?

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