Crime Statistics for Tapton Hill, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2025

Is Tapton Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 149 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 Tapton Hill, 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	37
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Shoplifting	23
Vehicle Crime	18
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Burglary	10
Public Order	9
Other Theft	7
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	149

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sharrow (1.39 miles)	643
Brincliffe (0.88 miles)	321
Crookesmoor (0.88 miles)	230
Crookes (0.62 miles)	213
Tapton Hill	149
Ecclesall (1.24 miles)	121
Ranmoor (0.62 miles)	110
Greystones (0.62 miles)	100
Fulwood (1.39 miles)	31
Under Tofts (1.39 miles)	31

Where are the most violent places near Tapton Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sharrow	186
Crookesmoor	103
Crookes	83
Brincliffe	70
Tapton Hill	37
Ecclesall	27
Ranmoor	26
Greystones	17
Fulwood	14
Under Tofts	9

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

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 Tapton Hill 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 Tapton Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Tapton Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Tapton Hill is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Park and Arbourthorne	83
2	Gleadless Valley	76
3	City	75
4	Hillsborough	70
5	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
6	Walkley	56
7	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52
8	Ecclesall	35
9	Crookes and Crosspool	29
10	Dore and Totley	28
11	Fulwood	24

Which road in Tapton Hill has the highest level of crime?

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