Crime Statistics for Grimston, Osbaldwick, York, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grimston in October 2024. There were a total of 56 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 Grimston, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Bicycle Theft	9
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Theft	5
Public Order	2
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
Drugs	1
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	56

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 Grimston. 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 Grimston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heworth (1.96 miles)	867
Foss (2.04 miles)	749
Layerthorpe (1.86 miles)	743
Tang Hall (1.39 miles)	328
Walmgate Stray (1.96 miles)	211
Heslington (1.39 miles)	118
Fulford (2.24 miles)	71
Grimston	56
Dunnington (1.39 miles)	16
Hall Garth (1.86 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Grimston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Heworth	262
Layerthorpe	232
Foss	224
Tang Hall	148
Walmgate Stray	67
Heslington	59
Grimston	20
Fulford	19
Dunnington	1
Hall Garth	1

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

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 Grimston 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 Grimston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Grimston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Grimston is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Guildhall	46
2	Clifton	42
3	Micklegate	39
4	Heworth	31
5	Hull Road	20
6	Huntington & New Earswick	20
7	Fishergate	14
8	Osbaldwick & Derwent	5
9	Heworth Without	5
10	Fulford & Heslington	2
11	Wheldrake	2

Which road in Grimston has the highest level of crime?

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