Crime Statistics for Gosforth Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gosforth Valley in September 2024. There were a total of 26 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gosforth Valley, 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	8
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
Shoplifting	1
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	26

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 Gosforth Valley. 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 Gosforth Valley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lowedges (1.24 miles)	232
Holmley Common (0.88 miles)	70
Dronfield (0.62 miles)	50
Coal Aston (1.39 miles)	49
Holmesdale (1.24 miles)	48
Gosforth Valley	26
Hallowes (0.88 miles)	20
Dronfield Woodhouse (0.62 miles)	15
Holmesfield (1.39 miles)	4
Cartledge (1.39 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Gosforth Valley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lowedges	95
Coal Aston	30
Holmley Common	23
Dronfield	19
Holmesdale	17
Gosforth Valley	8
Hallowes	6
Dronfield Woodhouse	5
Holmesfield	2
Cartledge	2

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

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 Gosforth Valley 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 Gosforth Valley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Beauchief and Greenhill	64
2	Graves Park	49
3	Old Whittington	30
4	Dunston	20
5	Coal Aston	14
6	Dronfield Woodhouse	11
7	Unstone	10
8	Dronfield North	10
9	Barlow & Holmesfield	10
10	Gosforth Valley	5
11	Dronfield South	2

Which road in Gosforth Valley has the highest level of crime?

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