Crime Statistics for Dunscroft, Doncaster, Doncaster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dunscroft in September 2024. There were a total of 123 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 Dunscroft, 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 Crime46
Anti Social Behaviour20
Criminal Damage Arson18
Public Order12
Burglary8
Other Theft6
Vehicle Crime5
Possession Of Weapons4
Theft From The Person4
All Crime123

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 Dunscroft. 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 Dunscroft

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Edenthorpe (2.77 miles)138
Dunscroft126
Stainforth (1.96 miles)85
Nutwell (2.78 miles)84
Canal Side (3.1 miles)58
Barnby Dun (2.56 miles)53
Stone Hill (1.24 miles)31
Brierholme Carr (2.24 miles)17
Dunsville (0.88 miles)13
South Bramwith (2.63 miles)2

4.51%
of Hatfield residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Dunscroft?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Edenthorpe49
Dunscroft46
Stainforth41
Nutwell31
Canal Side27
Barnby Dun11
Brierholme Carr7
Stone Hill6
Dunsville4
South Bramwith0

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

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 Dunscroft 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 Dunscroft compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Hexthorpe & Balby North91
2Town87
3Wheatley Hills & Intake82
4Bentley82
5Thorne & Moorends81
6Hatfield75
7Stainforth & Barnby Dun68
8Bessacarr66
9Edenthorpe & Kirk Sandall62
10Armthorpe57
11Finningley43

Which road in Dunscroft has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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