Crime Statistics for Old Basford, Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, 2025

Is Old Basford rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 740 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 Old Basford, 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	238
Anti Social Behaviour	92
Criminal Damage Arson	84
Vehicle Crime	66
Public Order	62
Shoplifting	48
Drugs	46
Other Theft	42
Other Crime	34
Burglary	16
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	740

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Carrington (0.88 miles)	1020
Mapperley Park (1.39 miles)	860
New Basford (0.62 miles)	854
Sherwood (1.24 miles)	768
Old Basford	710
Top Valley (1.24 miles)	517
Cinderhill (1.24 miles)	441
Aspley (1.39 miles)	361
Highbury Vale (0.88 miles)	349
Bestwood (1.39 miles)	280

Where are the most violent places near Old Basford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Carrington	416
New Basford	345
Mapperley Park	338
Sherwood	263
Old Basford	238
Cinderhill	191
Top Valley	189
Highbury Vale	123
Aspley	120
Bestwood	95

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

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 Old Basford 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 Old Basford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Old Basford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Old Basford is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hyson Green & Arboretum	89
2	Aspley	88
3	Berridge	79
4	Basford	75
5	Bulwell	74
6	Radford	68
7	Mapperley	67
8	Sherwood	67
9	Leen Valley	64
10	Nuthall East & Strelley	48
11	Wollaton West	25

Which road in Old Basford has the highest level of crime?

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