Crime Statistics for Burngreave, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Burngreave in October 2024. There were a total of 1190 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 Burngreave, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime299
Shoplifting169
Anti Social Behaviour161
Public Order131
Other Theft86
Criminal Damage Arson70
Vehicle Crime57
Drugs50
Theft From The Person49
Other Crime32
Burglary27
Possession Of Weapons23
Robbery19
Bicycle Theft17
All Crime1190

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 Burngreave. 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 Burngreave

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Sheffield (0.62 miles)1889
Burngreave1190
Park Hill (0.88 miles)1081
Pitsmoor (0.88 miles)802
Crookesmoor (1.39 miles)737
Walkley (1.24 miles)609
Attercliffe (1.24 miles)510
Brightside (1.39 miles)431
Shirecliffe (1.39 miles)384
Parkwood Springs (0.88 miles)375

25.55%
of Walkley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Burngreave?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Sheffield537
Park Hill341
Pitsmoor312
Burngreave299
Walkley182
Crookesmoor163
Attercliffe159
Brightside154
Parkwood Springs122
Shirecliffe116

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

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 Burngreave 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 Burngreave compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Burngreave86
2Park and Arbourthorne83
3Gleadless Valley76
4City75
5Hillsborough70
6Darnall66
7Nether Edge and Sharrow64
8Walkley56
9Broomhill and Sharrow Vale52
10Ecclesall35
11Crookes and Crosspool29

Which road in Burngreave has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0