Crime Statistics for Ilkeston, Erewash, Derbyshire, 2025

Is Ilkeston rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 216 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 Ilkeston, 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	91
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Other Theft	12
Vehicle Crime	8
Shoplifting	8
Other Crime	7
Burglary	7
Drugs	7
Robbery	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	216

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Larklands (0.88 miles)	277
Ilkeston	216
Little Hallam (1.24 miles)	156
Shipley Common (0.88 miles)	122
Awsworth (1.39 miles)	114
Cossall (1.24 miles)	92
Cossall Marsh (1.24 miles)	92
Shipley Gate (1.86 miles)	88
Nottingham Canal (1.37 miles)	57
New Stanton (1.86 miles)	38

Where are the most violent places near Ilkeston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Larklands	150
Ilkeston	91
Little Hallam	76
Awsworth	59
Shipley Gate	52
Shipley Common	45
Cossall	37
Cossall Marsh	37
Nottingham Canal	24
New Stanton	15

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

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 Ilkeston 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 Ilkeston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Awsworth Road	74
2	Cotmanhay	64
3	Eastwood Hilltop	60
4	Larklands	60
5	Little Hallam	54
6	Awsworth, Cossall & Trowell	51
7	Langley Mill and Aldercar	44
8	Heanor East	38
9	Hallam Fields	32
10	Kirk Hallam & Stanton-by-Dale	27
11	Shipley View	25

Which road in Ilkeston has the highest level of crime?

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