Crime Statistics for Shawfield, Rochdale, Rochdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shawfield in September 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shawfield, 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	1
All Crime	1

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 Shawfield. 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 Shawfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Catley Lane Head (0.62 miles)	2
Healey (0.88 miles)	2
Rain Shore (1.39 miles)	2
Bamford (0.88 miles)	1
Broadhalgh (0.62 miles)	1
Syke (1.39 miles)	1
Cutgate (0.62 miles)	1
Shawfield	1
Bagslate Moor (0.88 miles)	1
Spotland Bridge (0.88 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Shawfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rain Shore	2
Catley Lane Head	1
Bamford	1
Broadhalgh	1
Cutgate	1
Shawfield	1
Bagslate Moor	1
Healey	0
Syke	0
Spotland Bridge	0

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

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 Shawfield 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 Shawfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Central Rochdale	95
2	Kingsway	93
3	Milkstone and Deeplish	93
4	Smallbridge and Firgrove	92
5	Balderstone and Kirkholt	89
6	North Heywood	88
7	Spotland and Falinge	87
8	Bamford	81
9	Healey	80
10	Wardle and West Littleborough	73
11	Healey and Whitworth	54

Which road in Shawfield has the highest level of crime?

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