Crime Statistics for Dropping Well, Rotherham, Rotherham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dropping Well in October 2024. There were a total of 94 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 Dropping Well, 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	26
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Burglary	12
Shoplifting	11
Vehicle Crime	9
Other Crime	6
Other Theft	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	94

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 Dropping Well. 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 Dropping Well

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shiregreen (2.24 miles)	439
Meadowhall (1.24 miles)	381
Blackburn (1.39 miles)	307
Jordon (1.39 miles)	245
Templeborough (1.96 miles)	204
Masbrough (1.75 miles)	193
Don (1.73 miles)	162
Greasbrough (1.39 miles)	129
Dropping Well	94
Nether Haugh (1.75 miles)	82

Where are the most violent places near Dropping Well?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shiregreen	178
Meadowhall	84
Blackburn	81
Jordon	70
Masbrough	64
Don	57
Greasbrough	54
Templeborough	45
Nether Haugh	38
Dropping Well	26

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

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 Dropping Well 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 Dropping Well compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Firth Park	90
2	Rotherham East	88
3	Rotherham West	87
4	Wingfield	86
5	Shiregreen and Brightside	80
6	Rawmarsh	78
7	Boston Castle	71
8	Keppel	70
9	Hoober	64
10	East Ecclesfield	62
11	Brinsworth and Catcliffe	60

Which road in Dropping Well has the highest level of crime?

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