Crime Statistics for Brookside, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 2025

Is Brookside rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Brookside, 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	11
Other Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	16

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chesterfield (1.96 miles)	366
Boythorpe (1.24 miles)	275
Birdholme (1.96 miles)	243
Ashgate (0.88 miles)	132
Loundsley Green (1.24 miles)	58
Cutthorpe (1.96 miles)	31
Walton (0.88 miles)	18
Brookside	16
Old Brampton (1.39 miles)	5
Holymoorside (1.39 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Brookside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chesterfield	129
Boythorpe	102
Birdholme	95
Ashgate	57
Loundsley Green	29
Cutthorpe	21
Walton	12
Brookside	11
Holymoorside	2
Old Brampton	1

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

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 Brookside 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 Brookside compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rother	41
2	St Leonard's	40
3	Holmebrook	27
4	Hasland	23
5	Loundsley Green	21
6	Brockwell	20
7	Linacre	10
8	Brampton & Walton	3
9	Walton	3
10	West	3
11	Wingerworth	0

Which road in Brookside has the highest level of crime?

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