Crime Statistics for Erewash, Amber Valley, Nottinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Erewash in September 2024. There were a total of 190 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Erewash, 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	68
Shoplifting	49
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Public Order	10
Other Theft	9
Vehicle Crime	9
Drugs	5
Burglary	5
Other Crime	3
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	190

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 Erewash. 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 Erewash

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aldercar (1.04 miles)	267
Langley Mill (1.04 miles)	221
Erewash	190
Langley (1.04 miles)	188
Newthorpe Common (1.27 miles)	170
New Eastwood (0.4 miles)	143
Newlands (1.04 miles)	131
Shipley Gate (0.96 miles)	130
Newthorpe (1.52 miles)	102
Shipley (1.36 miles)	57

Where are the most violent places near Erewash?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aldercar	136
Newlands	109
Langley Mill	80
Langley	69
Erewash	68
Newthorpe Common	53
Shipley Gate	50
New Eastwood	46
Newthorpe	27
Shipley	22

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

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 Erewash 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 Erewash compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Erewash and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Erewash is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eastwood St Mary's	76
2	Awsworth Road	74
3	Cotmanhay	64
4	Eastwood Hilltop	60
5	Eastwood Hall	53
6	Heanor West	52
7	Langley Mill and Aldercar	44
8	Heanor East	38
9	Underwood	27
10	Shipley View	25
11	Brinsley	24

Which road in Erewash has the highest level of crime?

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