Crime Statistics for South Normanton, Bolsover, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Normanton in September 2024. There were a total of 99 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Normanton, 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	50
Other Crime	12
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Burglary	4
Public Order	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Shoplifting	2
Drugs	2
Other Theft	2
All Crime	99

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 South Normanton. 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 South Normanton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alfreton (1.96 miles)	153
Lower Birchwood (1.39 miles)	109
Upper Birchwood (1.39 miles)	109
South Normanton	98
Westhouses (1.39 miles)	90
Tibshelf (2.56 miles)	32
Newton (1.86 miles)	31
Pinxton (1.39 miles)	30
Barrows Green (2.56 miles)	30
Blackwell (1.39 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near South Normanton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alfreton	56
South Normanton	50
Westhouses	34
Lower Birchwood	25
Upper Birchwood	25
Tibshelf	22
Pinxton	15
Newton	14
Barrows Green	13
Blackwell	10

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

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 South Normanton 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 South Normanton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Normanton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Normanton is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kirkby Cross & Portland	55
2	Larwood	54
3	Huthwaite & Brierley	48
4	Selston	47
5	Jacksdale	40
6	Somercotes	34
7	Alfreton	33
8	Pinxton	33
9	South Normanton East	24
10	South Normanton West	18
11	Blackwell	14

Which road in South Normanton has the highest level of crime?

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