Crime Statistics for Sharrow, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sharrow in October 2024. There were a total of 471 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	121
Anti Social Behaviour	75
Shoplifting	61
Burglary	48
Vehicle Crime	36
Criminal Damage Arson	35
Public Order	30
Other Theft	29
Drugs	13
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	471

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Sheffield Park (1.39 miles)	698
Highfield (0.62 miles)	572
Sharrow	426
Heeley (0.88 miles)	392
Norton Lees (0.88 miles)	309
Greystones (1.24 miles)	254
Brincliffe (0.62 miles)	226
Carter Knowle (0.88 miles)	170
Nether Edge (0.88 miles)	170
Ecclesall (1.39 miles)	60

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Sheffield Park	334
Highfield	171
Norton Lees	140
Sharrow	121
Greystones	108
Heeley	98
Brincliffe	61
Carter Knowle	41
Nether Edge	41
Ecclesall	11

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burngreave	86
2	Park and Arbourthorne	83
3	Gleadless Valley	76
4	City	75
5	Darnall	66
6	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
7	Walkley	56
8	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52
9	Ecclesall	35
10	Crookes and Crosspool	29
11	Fulwood	24

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.