Crime Statistics for Butterley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Butterley in October 2024. There were a total of 183 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 Butterley, 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	82
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Public Order	15
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Drugs	12
Shoplifting	10
Other Theft	9
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	183

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 Butterley. 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 Butterley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenhillocks (1.24 miles)	260
Peasehill (1.24 miles)	229
Codnor Gate (0.88 miles)	188
Butterley	183
Hammersmith (0.62 miles)	149
Codnor (1.39 miles)	100
Leabrooks (1.39 miles)	75
Lower Hartshay (1.24 miles)	42
Upper Hartshay (1.39 miles)	35
Codnor Park (1.86 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Butterley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greenhillocks	114
Peasehill	102
Butterley	82
Codnor Gate	77
Hammersmith	68
Lower Hartshay	50
Codnor	45
Leabrooks	41
Upper Hartshay	23
Codnor Park	7

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

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 Butterley 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 Butterley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Butterley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Butterley is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ironville and Riddings	40
2	Ripley	34
3	Somercotes	34
4	Alfreton	33
5	Heanor and Loscoe	26
6	Ripley and Marehay	20
7	Codnor and Waingroves	19
8	Belper East	12
9	Wingfield	12
10	Swanwick	6
11	Heage and Ambergate	6

Which road in Butterley has the highest level of crime?

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