Crime Statistics for Fir Vale, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fir Vale in October 2024. There were a total of 485 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 Fir Vale, 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	187
Anti Social Behaviour	85
Public Order	51
Burglary	38
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Other Theft	29
Drugs	22
Vehicle Crime	13
Shoplifting	11
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	7
Robbery	2
All Crime	485

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 Fir Vale. 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 Fir Vale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pitsmoor (0.62 miles)	802
Firth Park (0.62 miles)	579
Grimesthorpe	457
Pismire Hill (0.88 miles)	453
Longley Estate (0.88 miles)	452
Shiregreen (1.24 miles)	439
Brightside (0.88 miles)	431
Fir Vale	426
Shirecliffe (1.24 miles)	384
Carbrook (1.39 miles)	211

Where are the most violent places near Fir Vale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pitsmoor	312
Firth Park	222
Longley Estate	189
Fir Vale	187
Shiregreen	178
Pismire Hill	177
Grimesthorpe	171
Brightside	154
Shirecliffe	116
Carbrook	64

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

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 Fir Vale 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 Fir Vale compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Southey	91
2	Firth Park	90
3	Burngreave	86
4	Park and Arbourthorne	83
5	Shiregreen and Brightside	80
6	City	75
7	Hillsborough	70
8	Darnall	66
9	East Ecclesfield	62
10	Walkley	56
11	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52

Which road in Fir Vale has the highest level of crime?

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