Crime Statistics for Castle Gresley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Castle Gresley in August 2024. There were a total of 32 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Castle Gresley, 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	14
Public Order	4
Drugs	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Shoplifting	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	32

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Midway (2.24 miles)	208
Albert Village (1.86 miles)	167
Newhall (1.39 miles)	96
Church Gresley (1.24 miles)	80
Linton Heath (1.39 miles)	56
Drakelow (1.79 miles)	54
Castle Gresley	32
Linton (1.24 miles)	30
Spring Cottage (2.24 miles)	25
Caldwell (1.39 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Castle Gresley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Drakelow	76
Lower Midway	67
Albert Village	53
Newhall	44
Linton Heath	36
Church Gresley	32
Linton	20
Castle Gresley	14
Spring Cottage	5
Caldwell	1

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

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 Castle Gresley 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 Castle Gresley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Stapenhill	71
2	Anglesey	67
3	Ashby Woulds	40
4	Newhall and Stanton	35
5	Church Gresley	34
6	Linton	34
7	Swadlincote	28
8	Seales	25
9	Brizlincote	21
10	Midway	16
11	Repton	11

Which road in Castle Gresley has the highest level of crime?

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