Crime Statistics for Sharrow, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

There were a total of 371 street level crime incidents in Sharrow 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 Sharrow, 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	101
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Vehicle Crime	36
Public Order	34
Shoplifting	33
Burglary	30
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Other Theft	21
Drugs	10
Other Crime	7
Robbery	7
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	371

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 Sharrow. 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 Sharrow

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sheffield Park (1.39 miles)	905
Highfield (0.62 miles)	481
Sharrow	371
Norton Lees (0.88 miles)	311
Heeley (0.88 miles)	311
Brincliffe (0.62 miles)	214
Carter Knowle (0.88 miles)	133
Nether Edge (0.88 miles)	133
Greystones (1.24 miles)	123
Ecclesall (1.39 miles)	55

Where are the most violent places near Sharrow?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sheffield Park	236
Highfield	157
Sharrow	101
Norton Lees	99
Heeley	99
Brincliffe	61
Carter Knowle	39
Nether Edge	39
Greystones	33
Ecclesall	12

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

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 Sharrow 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 Sharrow compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Burngreave	86
2	Park and Arbourthorne	83
3	Gleadless Valley	76
4	City	75
5	Darnall	66
6	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
7	Walkley	56
8	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52
9	Ecclesall	35
10	Crookes and Crosspool	29
11	Fulwood	24

Which road in Sharrow has the highest level of crime?

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