Crime Statistics for Ruffs, Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ruffs in October 2024. There were a total of 74 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ruffs, 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	25
Burglary	10
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	6
Shoplifting	6
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	4
Drugs	4
Robbery	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	74

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 Ruffs. 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 Ruffs

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bulwell Forest (2.24 miles)	340
Bulwell (1.96 miles)	227
Butler’s Hill (1.24 miles)	154
Broomhill (1.24 miles)	154
Beauvale	141
Bestwood Village (1.96 miles)	132
Watnall (2.24 miles)	106
Ruffs	74
Bogend (2.24 miles)	73
Greasley (1.96 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Ruffs?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bulwell Forest	126
Bulwell	102
Butler’s Hill	51
Broomhill	51
Bestwood Village	47
Beauvale	46
Watnall	35
Ruffs	25
Bogend	23
Greasley	4

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

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 Ruffs 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 Ruffs compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bulwell	74
2	Hucknall Central	72
3	Hucknall South	70
4	Bulwell Forest	64
5	Eastwood Hilltop	60
6	Hucknall North	57
7	Kimberley	49
8	Nuthall East & Strelley	48
9	Hucknall West	40
10	Watnall & Nuthall West	39
11	Greasley	28

Which road in Ruffs has the highest level of crime?

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