Crime Statistics for Moorends, Doncaster, Doncaster, 2024

Crime statistics for Moorends, Doncaster

There were a total of 83 street level crime incidents in Moorends 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 Moorends, 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 Crime29
Anti Social Behaviour12
Public Order10
Criminal Damage Arson9
Vehicle Crime6
Other Crime4
Other Theft4
Burglary4
Drugs3
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime83

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 Moorends. 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 Moorends

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Moorends83
Far Bank (3.34 miles)66
Fishlake (2.77 miles)64
Canal Side (1.96 miles)51
Waterside (1.75 miles)28
Hangsman Hill (1.39 miles)23
Brierholme Carr (3.17 miles)12
Fosterhouses (2.55 miles)2
Pincheon Green (2.77 miles)2
Mawson Green (3.16 miles)0

8.22%
of Thorne & Moorends residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Moorends?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Moorends29
Far Bank25
Fishlake22
Canal Side19
Waterside7
Hangsman Hill5
Brierholme Carr3
Fosterhouses0
Pincheon Green0
Mawson Green0

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

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 Moorends 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 Moorends compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Moorends and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Residents in Moorends have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Howdenshire.

#WardScore
1Thorne & Moorends81
2Hatfield75
3Stainforth & Barnby Dun68
4Norton & Askern67
5Edenthorpe & Kirk Sandall62
6Armthorpe57
7Goole South53
8Axholme North45
9Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland32
10Whitley28
11Howdenshire13

Which road in Moorends has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: March 2024
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