Crime Statistics for Alfreton, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Alfreton in October 2024. There were a total of 167 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 Alfreton, 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	71
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Public Order	13
Shoplifting	11
Other Theft	9
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	5
Burglary	4
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	167

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 Alfreton. 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 Alfreton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alfreton	156
Lower Birchwood (1.39 miles)	137
Upper Birchwood (1.39 miles)	84
Leabrooks (1.24 miles)	75
Westhouses (1.39 miles)	59
South Normanton (1.96 miles)	59
Blackwell (2.24 miles)	17
Shirland (2.24 miles)	6
Hallfield Gate (2.24 miles)	6
Oakerthorpe (1.96 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Alfreton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alfreton	71
Lower Birchwood	67
Leabrooks	41
Upper Birchwood	37
South Normanton	25
Westhouses	22
Blackwell	9
Shirland	3
Hallfield Gate	3
Oakerthorpe	3

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

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 Alfreton 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 Alfreton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Jacksdale	40
2	Ironville and Riddings	40
3	Somercotes	34
4	Alfreton	33
5	South Normanton East	24
6	Codnor and Waingroves	19
7	South Normanton West	18
8	Shirland	15
9	Blackwell	14
10	Wingfield	12
11	Swanwick	6

Which road in Alfreton has the highest level of crime?

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