Crime Statistics for Watnall, Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Watnall in September 2024. There were a total of 91 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	36
Violent Crime	14
Vehicle Crime	10
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Other Theft	7
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Burglary	4
Drugs	3
Public Order	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	91

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 Watnall. 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 Watnall

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hempshill Vale (1.39 miles)	206
Bogend (0.88 miles)	107
Moorgreen (1.75 miles)	104
Newthorpe (1.39 miles)	102
Awsworth (1.75 miles)	69
Nuthall (0.88 miles)	67
Watnall	64
Nottingham Canal (1.85 miles)	57
Greasley (1.39 miles)	17
Babbington (1.39 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Watnall?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hempshill Vale	112
Awsworth	51
Nottingham Canal	37
Moorgreen	36
Newthorpe	27
Watnall	14
Bogend	12
Nuthall	10
Greasley	6
Babbington	0

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

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 Watnall 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 Watnall compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Aspley	88
2	Bulwell	74
3	Cotmanhay	64
4	Eastwood Hilltop	60
5	Eastwood Hall	53
6	Awsworth, Cossall & Trowell	51
7	Kimberley	49
8	Nuthall East & Strelley	48
9	Hucknall West	40
10	Watnall & Nuthall West	39
11	Greasley	28

Which road in Watnall has the highest level of crime?

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