Crime Statistics for Breaston, Erewash, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Breaston in October 2024. There were a total of 216 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 Breaston, 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	80
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Shoplifting	16
Public Order	16
Other Theft	12
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Crime	8
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	216

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 Breaston. 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 Breaston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Toton (2.56 miles)	325
Long Eaton (1.86 miles)	246
Sandiacre (1.96 miles)	202
Breaston	108
New Sawley (0.88 miles)	77
Erewash Canal (2.11 miles)	48
Draycott (1.24 miles)	31
Great Wilne (2.24 miles)	9
Church Wilne (1.75 miles)	8
Ambaston (2.56 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Breaston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Toton	130
Long Eaton	92
Breaston	80
Sandiacre	65
New Sawley	28
Erewash Canal	16
Draycott	13
Great Wilne	8
Church Wilne	8
Ambaston	0

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

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 Breaston 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 Breaston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Breaston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Breaston have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Derby Road East.

#	Ward	Score
1	Derby Road East	40
2	Sandiacre	36
3	Long Eaton Central	33
4	Nottingham Road	33
5	Sawley	31
6	Draycott & Risley	30
7	Derby Road West	26
8	Castle Donington Central	24
9	Toton & Chilwell Meadows	22
10	Wilsthorpe	18
11	Breaston	17

Which road in Breaston has the highest level of crime?

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