Crime Statistics for Upper Hartshay, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Upper Hartshay in August 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 Upper Hartshay, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime6
Public Order6
Anti Social Behaviour2
Other Theft1
Vehicle Crime1
Other Crime1
All Crime17

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 Upper Hartshay. 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 Upper Hartshay

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Greenhillocks (1.39 miles)196
Hammersmith (0.88 miles)163
Butterley (1.39 miles)155
Morley Park (1.24 miles)36
Street Lane (1.24 miles)32
Boothgate (0.88 miles)24
Lower Hartshay (0.62 miles)18
Nether Heage (1.24 miles)18
Upper Hartshay17
Heage (0.62 miles)7

2.78%
of Heage and Ambergate residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Upper Hartshay?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Greenhillocks145
Hammersmith76
Butterley70
Morley Park14
Boothgate12
Nether Heage10
Lower Hartshay8
Street Lane6
Upper Hartshay6
Heage6

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

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 Upper Hartshay 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 Upper Hartshay compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ripley34
2Heanor and Loscoe26
3Ripley and Marehay20
4Codnor and Waingroves19
5Belper East12
6Wingfield12
7Belper Central11
8Belper South9
9Swanwick6
10Heage and Ambergate6
11Belper North2

Which road in Upper Hartshay has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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