Crime Statistics for Bow Broom, Rotherham, Rotherham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bow Broom in September 2024. There were a total of 128 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 Bow Broom, 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	55
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Other Crime	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Theft	5
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	128

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 Bow Broom. 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 Bow Broom

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wath-upon-Dearne (1.39 miles)	232
Adwick upon Dearne (1.75 miles)	182
Swinton Bridge (0.62 miles)	179
Bow Broom	128
Swinton (0.62 miles)	123
Old Denaby (1.86 miles)	94
Kilnhurst (1.39 miles)	71
Bolton Upton Dearne (1.86 miles)	69
Newhill (1.24 miles)	66
Abdy (1.39 miles)	61

Where are the most violent places near Bow Broom?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wath-upon-Dearne	109
Adwick upon Dearne	87
Swinton Bridge	77
Bow Broom	55
Swinton	50
Kilnhurst	36
Old Denaby	35
Abdy	29
Newhill	25
Bolton Upton Dearne	22

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

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 Bow Broom 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 Bow Broom compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bow Broom and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bow Broom is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rotherham East	88
2	Mexborough	86
3	Wingfield	86
4	Rawmarsh	78
5	Valley	75
6	Dearne South	74
7	Wombwell	73
8	Swinton	69
9	North East	68
10	Wath	68
11	Silverwood	63

Which road in Bow Broom has the highest level of crime?

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