Crime Statistics for Charlestown, High Peak, Derbyshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Charlestown, High Peak

There were a total of 11 street level crime incidents in Charlestown in March 2024. 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 Charlestown, 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 Crime6
Anti Social Behaviour2
Other Theft1
Drugs1
Public Order1
All Crime11

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Charlestown. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Charlestown

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Higher Dinting (1.39 miles)129
Old Glossop (1.39 miles)101
Brookfield (2.24 miles)76
Hobroyd (0.88 miles)50
Hargate Hill (1.39 miles)35
Charlesworth (1.96 miles)12
Charlestown11
Moorfield (0.62 miles)8
Holehouse (1.86 miles)4
Chunal (0.62 miles)0

3.91%
of Whitfield (High Peak) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Charlestown?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Higher Dinting44
Old Glossop35
Brookfield23
Hobroyd22
Hargate Hill15
Charlestown6
Charlesworth3
Moorfield3
Holehouse2
Chunal0

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

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 Charlestown 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 Charlestown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Longdendale75
2Tintwistle44
3Howard Town27
4Gamesley26
5Padfield24
6Hadfield North19
7Whitfield19
8Hadfield South17
9Dinting15
10Old Glossop13
11Simmondley5

Which road in Charlestown has the highest level of crime?

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

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