Crime Statistics for Common Side, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Common Side in September 2024. There were a total of 153 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 Common Side, 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	57
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Shoplifting	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Burglary	5
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	3
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	153

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aldercar (0.88 miles)	267
Langley Mill (0.88 miles)	221
Langley (0.62 miles)	188
Common Side	153
Heanor	153
Loscoe (0.88 miles)	135
Newlands (0.62 miles)	131
Marlpool (0.62 miles)	93
Shipley (0.88 miles)	57
Heanor Gate (0.88 miles)	38

Where are the most violent places near Common Side?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aldercar	136
Newlands	109
Langley Mill	80
Langley	69
Common Side	57
Heanor	57
Loscoe	50
Marlpool	38
Shipley	22
Heanor Gate	18

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

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 Common Side 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 Common Side compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Common Side and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Common Side is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eastwood St Mary's	76
2	Cotmanhay	64
3	Eastwood Hilltop	60
4	Eastwood Hall	53
5	Heanor West	52
6	Langley Mill and Aldercar	44
7	Heanor East	38
8	Heanor and Loscoe	26
9	Shipley View	25
10	Brinsley	24
11	Codnor and Waingroves	19

Which road in Common Side has the highest level of crime?

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