Crime Statistics for Parkwood Springs, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Parkwood Springs in September 2024. There were a total of 349 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 Parkwood Springs, 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	112
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Public Order	33
Vehicle Crime	32
Burglary	28
Shoplifting	26
Other Theft	25
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Drugs	13
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	5
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	2
All Crime	349

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 Parkwood Springs. 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 Parkwood Springs

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sheffield (1.39 miles)	1141
Burngreave (0.88 miles)	1049
Shirecliffe (0.62 miles)	768
Grimesthorpe (1.39 miles)	721
Pitsmoor (1.24 miles)	483
Fir Vale (1.39 miles)	445
Parkwood Springs	349
Crookesmoor (1.39 miles)	319
Walkley (0.88 miles)	290
Malinbridge (1.24 miles)	180

Where are the most violent places near Parkwood Springs?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sheffield	361
Grimesthorpe	335
Burngreave	334
Pitsmoor	261
Shirecliffe	256
Fir Vale	180
Parkwood Springs	112
Walkley	80
Crookesmoor	74
Malinbridge	62

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

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 Parkwood Springs 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 Parkwood Springs compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Parkwood Springs and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Parkwood Springs is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Firth Park	90
2	Burngreave	86
3	Park and Arbourthorne	83
4	Shiregreen and Brightside	80
5	City	75
6	Hillsborough	70
7	Darnall	66
8	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
9	Walkley	56
10	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52
11	Crookes and Crosspool	29

Which road in Parkwood Springs has the highest level of crime?

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