Crime Statistics for Ockbrook, Erewash, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ockbrook in August 2024. There were a total of 68 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 Ockbrook, 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	4
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	68

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 Ockbrook. 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 Ockbrook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cherrytree Hill (2.48 miles)	167
Spondon (1.39 miles)	105
Draycott (2.24 miles)	54
Ockbrook	35
Moravian Settlement (0.62 miles)	32
Borrowash (1.24 miles)	24
Ambaston (2.48 miles)	4
The Flourish (1.24 miles)	4
Dale Abbey (1.39 miles)	1
Dale Moor (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Ockbrook?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Spondon	53
Cherrytree Hill	47
Ockbrook	36
Moravian Settlement	14
Borrowash	14
Draycott	8
The Flourish	2
Ambaston	0
Dale Abbey	0
Dale Moor	0

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

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 Ockbrook 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 Ockbrook compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Boulton	65
2	Alvaston	63
3	Derwent	53
4	Chaddesden	39
5	Draycott & Risley	30
6	Ockbrook & Borrowash	23
7	Spondon	20
8	Oakwood	18
9	Little Eaton & Stanley	18
10	Breaston	17
11	West Hallam & Dale Abbey	11

Which road in Ockbrook has the highest level of crime?

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