Crime Statistics for Canal Side, Doncaster, Doncaster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Canal Side in October 2024. There were a total of 55 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 Canal Side, 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 Crime21
Anti Social Behaviour6
Criminal Damage Arson5
Other Theft5
Public Order5
Vehicle Crime3
Shoplifting3
Drugs2
Burglary2
Other Crime1
Robbery1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime55

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Canal Side. 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 Canal Side

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stainforth (2.55 miles)107
Moorends (1.96 miles)106
Far Bank (2.56 miles)62
Fishlake (1.96 miles)60
Canal Side55
Waterside (0.88 miles)37
Hangsman Hill (1.39 miles)32
Stone Hill (2.56 miles)15
Brierholme Carr (1.24 miles)10
Fosterhouses (2.24 miles)2

8.22%
of Thorne & Moorends residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Canal Side?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Moorends41
Stainforth36
Canal Side21
Far Bank19
Fishlake18
Hangsman Hill10
Waterside7
Stone Hill6
Brierholme Carr2
Fosterhouses0

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

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 Canal Side 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 Canal Side compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Canal Side and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Canal Side is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Wheatley Hills & Intake82
2Thorne & Moorends81
3Hatfield75
4Stainforth & Barnby Dun68
5Norton & Askern67
6Edenthorpe & Kirk Sandall62
7Armthorpe57
8Goole South53
9Axholme Central44
10Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland32
11Whitley28

Which road in Canal Side has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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