Crime Statistics for Westhouses, Bolsover, Derbyshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Westhouses in August 2024. There were a total of 46 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 Westhouses, 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	22
Public Order	8
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Theft	3
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	46

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 Westhouses. 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 Westhouses

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Birchwood (1.96 miles)	161
Alfreton (1.39 miles)	153
South Normanton (1.39 miles)	65
Westhouses	46
Newton (1.75 miles)	31
Tibshelf (1.96 miles)	24
Stonebroom (1.39 miles)	21
Blackwell (0.88 miles)	15
Shirland (1.96 miles)	13
Hallfield Gate (1.96 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Westhouses?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Birchwood	91
Alfreton	56
South Normanton	25
Newton	23
Westhouses	22
Tibshelf	11
Stonebroom	11
Blackwell	10
Shirland	6
Hallfield Gate	6

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

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 Westhouses 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 Westhouses compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kirkby Cross & Portland	55
2	Larwood	54
3	Jacksdale	40
4	Tibshelf	39
5	Somercotes	34
6	Alfreton	33
7	Pinxton	33
8	South Normanton East	24
9	South Normanton West	18
10	Shirland	15
11	Blackwell	14

Which road in Westhouses has the highest level of crime?

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