Crime Statistics for Morley Park, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Morley Park in September 2024. There were a total of 17 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Morley Park, 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
Public Order	7
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	17

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 Morley Park. 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 Morley Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenhillocks (1.39 miles)	154
Peasehill (1.39 miles)	105
Far Laund (1.24 miles)	92
Street Lane	34
Rawson Green (1.39 miles)	30
Upper Hartshay (1.24 miles)	24
Boothgate (0.88 miles)	24
Morley Park	17
Marehay (0.62 miles)	11
Codnor Breach (1.39 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Morley Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greenhillocks	90
Peasehill	51
Far Laund	35
Street Lane	30
Rawson Green	13
Upper Hartshay	13
Boothgate	12
Morley Park	8
Marehay	1
Codnor Breach	1

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

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 Morley Park 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 Morley Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Morley Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Morley Park is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ripley	34
2	Heanor and Loscoe	26
3	Shipley Park, Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse	22
4	Ripley and Marehay	20
5	Codnor and Waingroves	19
6	Belper East	12
7	Wingfield	12
8	Belper Central	11
9	Belper South	9
10	Heage and Ambergate	6
11	Belper North	2

Which road in Morley Park has the highest level of crime?

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