Crime Statistics for Morley Smithy, Erewash, Derbyshire, 2024

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in Morley Smithy in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Public Order	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	2

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 Morley Smithy. 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 Morley Smithy

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Oakwood (1.96 miles)	225
Breadsall (1.75 miles)	160
Morley (0.62 miles)	31
Little Eaton (1.86 miles)	18
Kilburn (2.56 miles)	15
Horsley (1.96 miles)	7
Horsley Woodhouse (1.86 miles)	5
Morleymoor (0.62 miles)	3
Morley Smithy	2
The Flourish (2.63 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Morley Smithy?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Oakwood	85
Breadsall	54
Morley	11
Little Eaton	9
Kilburn	7
Horsley Woodhouse	3
Horsley	1
The Flourish	1
Morleymoor	0
Morley Smithy	0

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

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 Morley Smithy 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 Morley Smithy compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Derwent	53
2	Chaddesden	39
3	Shipley Park, Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse	22
4	Spondon	20
5	Oakwood	18
6	Little Eaton & Stanley	18
7	West Hallam & Dale Abbey	11
8	Allestree	11
9	Kilburn, Denby and Holbrook	10
10	Belper South	9
11	Duffield	6

Which road in Morley Smithy has the highest level of crime?

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