Crime Statistics for Moorhole, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

There were a total of 78 street level crime incidents in Moorhole 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 Moorhole, 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	35
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Public Order	7
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Burglary	5
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	78

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 Moorhole. 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 Moorhole

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hollins End (1.75 miles)	291
Coisley Hill (1.24 miles)	248
Frecheville (1.39 miles)	202
Waterthorpe (1.24 miles)	183
Birley (0.79 miles)	144
Halfway (1.39 miles)	97
Moorhole	78
Mosborough (1.39 miles)	74
Highlane (0.62 miles)	68
Plumbley (1.24 miles)	35

Where are the most violent places near Moorhole?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coisley Hill	91
Hollins End	90
Frecheville	61
Birley	55
Waterthorpe	49
Mosborough	41
Halfway	39
Moorhole	35
Highlane	28
Plumbley	19

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

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 Moorhole 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 Moorhole compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Moorhole and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Moorhole is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Richmond	81
2	Woodhouse	80
3	Birley	73
4	Rother Vale	66
5	Graves Park	49
6	Mosborough	48
7	Wales	46
8	Beighton	45
9	Eckington North	30
10	Barrow Hill and New Whittington	29
11	Ridgeway & Marsh Lane	28

Which road in Moorhole has the highest level of crime?

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