Crime Statistics for Lower Birchwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Birchwood in October 2024. There were a total of 144 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 Lower Birchwood, 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	67
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Shoplifting	14
Public Order	12
Other Theft	10
Other Crime	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	2
Drugs	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	144

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alfreton (1.39 miles)	156
Lower Birchwood	137
Upper Birchwood	84
Leabrooks (1.39 miles)	75
South Normanton (1.39 miles)	59
Erewash Canal (1.71 miles)	34
Pinxton (1.24 miles)	33
Codnor Park (1.86 miles)	24
Ironville (1.86 miles)	24
Barrows Green (1.75 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Lower Birchwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alfreton	71
Lower Birchwood	67
Leabrooks	41
Upper Birchwood	37
South Normanton	25
Pinxton	14
Erewash Canal	13
Barrows Green	10
Codnor Park	7
Ironville	7

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

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 Lower Birchwood 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 Lower Birchwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kirkby Cross & Portland	55
2	Selston	47
3	Jacksdale	40
4	Ironville and Riddings	40
5	Somercotes	34
6	Alfreton	33
7	South Normanton East	24
8	Codnor and Waingroves	19
9	South Normanton West	18
10	Blackwell	14
11	Swanwick	6

Which road in Lower Birchwood has the highest level of crime?

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