Crime Statistics for Little Chester, Derby, City of Derby, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Chester in October 2024. There were a total of 935 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 Little Chester, 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	319
Anti Social Behaviour	156
Public Order	105
Shoplifting	81
Other Theft	68
Drugs	56
Criminal Damage Arson	46
Vehicle Crime	29
Burglary	19
Other Crime	19
Possession Of Weapons	15
Theft From The Person	14
Robbery	5
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	935

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 Little Chester. 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 Little Chester

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Markeaton Brook (0.38 miles)	1253
Litchurch (1.39 miles)	1034
Little Chester	935
Markeaton (1.24 miles)	468
St Luke’s (1.76 miles)	446
Oakwood (1.96 miles)	339
Breadsall Hilltop (0.88 miles)	288
Breadsall (1.75 miles)	220
Cherrytree Hill (1.96 miles)	126
Allestree (1.39 miles)	69

Where are the most violent places near Little Chester?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Markeaton Brook	489
Litchurch	400
Little Chester	319
Markeaton	233
St Luke’s	224
Oakwood	128
Breadsall Hilltop	92
Breadsall	69
Cherrytree Hill	44
Allestree	26

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

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 Little Chester 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 Little Chester compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Arboretum	81
2	Abbey	67
3	Normanton	66
4	Darley	63
5	Mackworth	61
6	Derwent	53
7	Chaddesden	39
8	South West Parishes	28
9	Oakwood	18
10	Little Eaton & Stanley	18
11	Allestree	11

Which road in Little Chester has the highest level of crime?

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