Crime Statistics for Erewash Canal, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Erewash Canal in August 2024. There were a total of 53 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 Erewash Canal, 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	31
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Public Order	5
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Drugs	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	53

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 Erewash Canal. 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 Erewash Canal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Birchwood (1.71 miles)	161
Upper Birchwood (1.71 miles)	111
Erewash Canal	53
Dove Green (1.61 miles)	44
Codnor Park (0.36 miles)	34
Ironville (0.36 miles)	31
Jacksdale (0.36 miles)	30
Barrows Green (1.03 miles)	30
Stoneyford (1.46 miles)	18
New Brinsley (1.23 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Erewash Canal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Birchwood	91
Upper Birchwood	51
Erewash Canal	31
Ironville	16
Codnor Park	14
Jacksdale	14
Barrows Green	13
Dove Green	9
Stoneyford	8
New Brinsley	6

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

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 Erewash Canal 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 Erewash Canal compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Erewash Canal and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Erewash Canal is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Selston	47
2	Jacksdale	40
3	Ironville and Riddings	40
4	Ripley	34
5	Somercotes	34
6	Underwood	27
7	Heanor and Loscoe	26
8	Brinsley	24
9	Ripley and Marehay	20
10	Codnor and Waingroves	19
11	Swanwick	6

Which road in Erewash Canal has the highest level of crime?

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