Crime Statistics for Waterthorpe, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waterthorpe in August 2024. There were a total of 341 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	82
Violent Crime	73
Shoplifting	65
Public Order	28
Vehicle Crime	27
Burglary	17
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Other Theft	15
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	6
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	341

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 Waterthorpe. 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 Waterthorpe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Beighton (0.88 miles)	270
Drakehouse (1.24 miles)	262
Waterthorpe	243
Halfway (0.62 miles)	217
Coisley Hill (1.75 miles)	213
Holbrook (0.88 miles)	125
Mosborough (1.39 miles)	90
Moorhole (1.24 miles)	73
Killamarsh (1.75 miles)	36
Plumbley (1.75 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Waterthorpe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Drakehouse	91
Coisley Hill	89
Beighton	83
Waterthorpe	73
Halfway	63
Holbrook	33
Mosborough	33
Moorhole	29
Plumbley	16
Killamarsh	8

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

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 Waterthorpe 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 Waterthorpe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Waterthorpe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Waterthorpe is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Woodhouse	80
2	Birley	73
3	Rother Vale	66
4	Mosborough	48
5	Wales	46
6	Beighton	45
7	Eckington North	30
8	Barrow Hill and New Whittington	29
9	Ridgeway & Marsh Lane	28
10	Killamarsh West	21
11	Killamarsh East	16

Which road in Waterthorpe has the highest level of crime?

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