Crime Statistics for Greasbrough, Rotherham, Rotherham, 2025

Is Greasbrough rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 220 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 Greasbrough, 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	91
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Public Order	21
Other Crime	16
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Shoplifting	14
Drugs	12
Other Theft	10
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Vehicle Crime	4
All Crime	220

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Greasbrough. 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 Greasbrough

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aldwarke (1.96 miles)	362
Greasbrough	214
Rawmarsh (1.39 miles)	187
Parkgate (1.24 miles)	183
Ryecroft (1.96 miles)	168
Masbrough (1.86 miles)	161
Nether Haugh (0.62 miles)	84
Dropping Well (1.39 miles)	76
Upper Haugh (1.39 miles)	33
Hoober (1.86 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Greasbrough?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aldwarke	118
Greasbrough	91
Masbrough	70
Rawmarsh	63
Ryecroft	61
Parkgate	46
Nether Haugh	38
Dropping Well	33
Upper Haugh	15
Hoober	6

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

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 Greasbrough 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 Greasbrough compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Greasbrough and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Greasbrough is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rotherham East	88
2	Rotherham West	87
3	Wingfield	86
4	Rawmarsh	78
5	Valley	75
6	Boston Castle	71
7	Keppel	70
8	Hoober	64
9	East Ecclesfield	62
10	Brinsworth and Catcliffe	60
11	Sitwell	58

Which road in Greasbrough has the highest level of crime?

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