Crime Statistics for Pitsmoor, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pitsmoor in August 2024. There were a total of 521 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 Pitsmoor, 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	156
Anti Social Behaviour	73
Public Order	65
Vehicle Crime	41
Other Theft	38
Criminal Damage Arson	35
Burglary	25
Shoplifting	24
Other Crime	22
Drugs	16
Theft From The Person	8
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	7
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	521

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burngreave (0.88 miles)	1049
Park Hill (1.24 miles)	1038
Firth Park (1.24 miles)	949
Grimesthorpe (0.62 miles)	750
Pitsmoor	521
Fir Vale (0.62 miles)	431
Attercliffe (0.88 miles)	415
Parkwood Springs (1.24 miles)	391
Brightside (0.62 miles)	366
Carbrook (1.24 miles)	152

Where are the most violent places near Pitsmoor?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Firth Park	361
Burngreave	334
Park Hill	299
Grimesthorpe	299
Brightside	172
Pitsmoor	156
Fir Vale	155
Parkwood Springs	149
Attercliffe	117
Carbrook	49

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

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 Pitsmoor 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 Pitsmoor compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Pitsmoor has the highest level of crime?

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