Crime Statistics for Meadowhead, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Meadowhead in September 2024. There were a total of 187 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 Meadowhead, 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	53
Shoplifting	35
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Public Order	17
Other Theft	11
Vehicle Crime	10
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Other Crime	7
Drugs	6
Burglary	4
Robbery	3
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	187

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Meadowhead. 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 Meadowhead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norton Woodseats (0.62 miles)	492
Bolehill (0.62 miles)	440
Norton (0.62 miles)	246
Lowedges (1.24 miles)	232
Greenhill (0.62 miles)	203
Jordanthorpe (0.88 miles)	200
Meadowhead	187
Beauchief (0.88 miles)	132
Millhouses (1.39 miles)	40
Abbeydale (1.24 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Meadowhead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norton Woodseats	300
Bolehill	133
Lowedges	95
Norton	75
Jordanthorpe	66
Beauchief	55
Meadowhead	53
Greenhill	49
Millhouses	15
Abbeydale	10

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

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 Meadowhead 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 Meadowhead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Meadowhead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Meadowhead is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gleadless Valley	76
2	Beauchief and Greenhill	64
3	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
4	Graves Park	49
5	Ecclesall	35
6	Dore and Totley	28
7	Coal Aston	14
8	Dronfield Woodhouse	11
9	Dronfield North	10
10	Gosforth Valley	5
11	Dronfield South	2

Which road in Meadowhead has the highest level of crime?

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