Crime Statistics for Birley, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2025

Is Birley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 215 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Birley, 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	63
Shoplifting	45
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Vehicle Crime	20
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Crime	11
Other Theft	6
Drugs	6
Burglary	4
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	215

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 Birley. 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 Birley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Intake (1.5 miles)	320
Waterthorpe (1.84 miles)	313
Hollins End (0.97 miles)	268
Drakehouse (1.84 miles)	201
Coisley Hill (0.79 miles)	199
Birley	195
Frecheville (0.74 miles)	193
Charnock Hall (1.5 miles)	116
Moorhole (0.79 miles)	89
Highlane (0.63 miles)	72

Where are the most violent places near Birley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Intake	96
Coisley Hill	73
Hollins End	66
Waterthorpe	64
Birley	63
Frecheville	56
Drakehouse	32
Moorhole	30
Charnock Hall	27
Highlane	25

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

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 Birley 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 Birley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Birley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Birley is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Richmond	81
2	Woodhouse	80
3	Manor Castle	80
4	Gleadless Valley	76
5	Birley	73
6	Rother Vale	66
7	Graves Park	49
8	Mosborough	48
9	Beighton	45
10	Eckington North	30
11	Ridgeway & Marsh Lane	28

Which road in Birley has the highest level of crime?

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