Crime Statistics for Pitsmoor, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pitsmoor in September 2024. There were a total of 710 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

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	261
Public Order	91
Other Theft	58
Vehicle Crime	54
Drugs	52
Criminal Damage Arson	47
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Shoplifting	34
Other Crime	21
Burglary	15
Robbery	13
Bicycle Theft	10
Possession Of Weapons	10
Theft From The Person	6
All Crime	710

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 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)	812
Grimesthorpe (0.62 miles)	721
Firth Park (1.24 miles)	565
Pitsmoor	483
Fir Vale (0.62 miles)	445
Attercliffe (0.88 miles)	415
Brightside (0.62 miles)	366
Parkwood Springs (1.24 miles)	349
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
Park Hill	501
Grimesthorpe	335
Burngreave	334
Pitsmoor	261
Firth Park	208
Fir Vale	180
Brightside	172
Attercliffe	117
Parkwood Springs	112
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.