Crime Statistics for Heeley, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heeley in October 2024. There were a total of 392 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 Heeley, 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	98
Shoplifting	67
Anti Social Behaviour	65
Burglary	33
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Public Order	30
Vehicle Crime	22
Other Theft	20
Drugs	8
Other Crime	6
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	392

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 Heeley. 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 Heeley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Highfield (0.62 miles)	572
Sharrow (0.88 miles)	426
Heeley	392
Norton Lees	309
Hemsworth (0.88 miles)	250
Norton Woodseats (1.24 miles)	240
Bolehill (1.24 miles)	240
Norton (1.24 miles)	240
Carter Knowle (1.24 miles)	170
Nether Edge (1.24 miles)	170

Where are the most violent places near Heeley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Highfield	171
Norton Lees	140
Sharrow	121
Heeley	98
Norton Woodseats	79
Bolehill	79
Norton	79
Hemsworth	78
Carter Knowle	41
Nether Edge	41

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

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 Heeley 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 Heeley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Heeley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Heeley is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Park and Arbourthorne	83
2	Richmond	81
3	Manor Castle	80
4	Gleadless Valley	76
5	City	75
6	Beauchief and Greenhill	64
7	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
8	Walkley	56
9	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52
10	Graves Park	49
11	Ecclesall	35

Which road in Heeley has the highest level of crime?

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