Crime Statistics for Norton Woodseats, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Norton Woodseats in October 2024. There were a total of 240 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 Norton Woodseats, 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	79
Anti Social Behaviour	40
Shoplifting	20
Burglary	19
Public Order	19
Vehicle Crime	15
Other Theft	12
Drugs	12
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Crime	5
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	240

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 Norton Woodseats. 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 Norton Woodseats

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heeley (1.24 miles)	392
Batemoor (1.24 miles)	316
Norton Lees (1.24 miles)	309
Hemsworth (0.88 miles)	250
Norton Woodseats	240
Bolehill	240
Norton	240
Meadowhead (0.62 miles)	216
Greenhill (0.88 miles)	207
Jordanthorpe (0.62 miles)	198

Where are the most violent places near Norton Woodseats?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norton Lees	140
Batemoor	124
Heeley	98
Norton Woodseats	79
Bolehill	79
Norton	79
Hemsworth	78
Meadowhead	74
Jordanthorpe	68
Greenhill	60

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

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 Norton Woodseats 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 Norton Woodseats compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Richmond	81
2	Gleadless Valley	76
3	Beauchief and Greenhill	64
4	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
5	Graves Park	49
6	Ecclesall	35
7	Coal Aston	14
8	Dronfield Woodhouse	11
9	Dronfield North	10
10	Gosforth Valley	5
11	Dronfield South	2

Which road in Norton Woodseats has the highest level of crime?

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