Crime Statistics for Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 2024

There were a total of 227 street level crime incidents in Sheepbridge 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 Sheepbridge, 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	87
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Other Theft	21
Public Order	19
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Burglary	15
Shoplifting	11
Other Crime	8
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Robbery	2
All Crime	227

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 Sheepbridge. 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 Sheepbridge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stonegravels (1.39 miles)	490
Tapton (1.75 miles)	386
Newbold (0.62 miles)	306
Sheepbridge	227
Dunston (0.88 miles)	188
The Brushes (0.62 miles)	130
New Brimington (1.86 miles)	111
Loundsley Green (1.75 miles)	71
Unstone Green (1.24 miles)	23
Barlow (1.86 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Sheepbridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stonegravels	153
Tapton	126
Newbold	121
Sheepbridge	87
Dunston	83
New Brimington	58
The Brushes	52
Loundsley Green	37
Unstone Green	7
Barlow	1

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

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 Sheepbridge 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 Sheepbridge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Helen's	49
2	Moor	47
3	Old Whittington	30
4	Brimington North	27
5	Holmebrook	27
6	Loundsley Green	21
7	Dunston	20
8	Brimington South	15
9	Unstone	10
10	Linacre	10
11	West	3

Which road in Sheepbridge has the highest level of crime?

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