Crime Statistics for Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham, Rotherham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wath-upon-Dearne in October 2024. There were a total of 179 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour44
Violent Crime38
Other Theft25
Criminal Damage Arson21
Public Order16
Vehicle Crime13
Burglary9
Other Crime8
Drugs4
Robbery1
All Crime179

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 Wath-upon-Dearne. 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 Wath-upon-Dearne

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Broomhill (1.75 miles)226
Swinton Bridge (1.96 miles)202
Swinton (1.75 miles)168
Wath-upon-Dearne165
Bow Broom (1.39 miles)148
Abdy (1.24 miles)102
Bolton Upton Dearne (1.75 miles)91
Upper Haugh (1.96 miles)73
Newhill (0.62 miles)55
Hoober (1.75 miles)15

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Where are the most violent places near Wath-upon-Dearne?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Swinton Bridge96
Abdy80
Swinton73
Broomhill72
Bow Broom69
Wath-upon-Dearne38
Bolton Upton Dearne28
Upper Haugh26
Newhill24
Hoober4

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Wath-upon-Dearne?

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 Wath-upon-Dearne 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 Wath-upon-Dearne compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wath-upon-Dearne and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Wath-upon-Dearne have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Dearne North.

#WardScore
1Dearne North92
2Rotherham East88
3Wingfield86
4Rawmarsh78
5Darfield78
6Valley75
7Dearne South74
8Wombwell73
9Swinton69
10North East68
11Wath68

Which road in Wath-upon-Dearne has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Wath-upon-Dearne with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Concept Court.

Last updated: October 2024
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