Crime Statistics for Sharrow, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sharrow in August 2024. There were a total of 583 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 Sharrow, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime155
Anti Social Behaviour94
Other Theft72
Shoplifting69
Vehicle Crime50
Burglary39
Criminal Damage Arson24
Drugs20
Public Order19
Possession Of Weapons13
Robbery11
Other Crime11
Bicycle Theft4
Theft From The Person2
All Crime583

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 Sharrow. 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 Sharrow

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Sheffield Park (1.39 miles)1731
Highfield (0.62 miles)1106
Sharrow545
Heeley (0.88 miles)352
Norton Lees (0.88 miles)351
Carter Knowle (0.88 miles)258
Nether Edge (0.88 miles)180
Brincliffe (0.62 miles)179
Greystones (1.24 miles)115
Ecclesall (1.39 miles)77

24.32%
of Nether Edge and Sharrow residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sharrow?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Sheffield Park430
Highfield290
Sharrow155
Carter Knowle120
Norton Lees89
Heeley83
Nether Edge54
Brincliffe40
Greystones22
Ecclesall21

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

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 Sharrow 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 Sharrow compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Burngreave86
2Park and Arbourthorne83
3Gleadless Valley76
4City75
5Darnall66
6Nether Edge and Sharrow64
7Walkley56
8Broomhill and Sharrow Vale52
9Ecclesall35
10Crookes and Crosspool29
11Fulwood24

Which road in Sharrow has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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