Crime Statistics for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 2024

There were a total of 1102 street level crime incidents in Sheffield in February 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 Sheffield, 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	331
Anti Social Behaviour	152
Public Order	107
Shoplifting	100
Vehicle Crime	80
Other Theft	74
Criminal Damage Arson	68
Drugs	56
Theft From The Person	41
Burglary	33
Robbery	19
Possession Of Weapons	16
Bicycle Theft	14
Other Crime	11
All Crime	1102

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Sheffield. 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 Sheffield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sheffield	1102
Burngreave (0.62 miles)	1059
Park Hill (0.62 miles)	1041
Sheffield Park (0.88 miles)	760
Highfield (1.24 miles)	452
Manor Park (1.39 miles)	443
Attercliffe (1.39 miles)	417
Parkwood Springs (1.39 miles)	390
Walkley (1.39 miles)	338
Crookesmoor (1.24 miles)	312

Where are the most violent places near Sheffield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sheffield	331
Park Hill	314
Burngreave	312
Sheffield Park	237
Highfield	152
Manor Park	152
Attercliffe	124
Walkley	109
Parkwood Springs	105
Crookesmoor	84

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

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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sheffield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Sheffield is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burngreave	86
2	Park and Arbourthorne	83
3	Gleadless Valley	76
4	City	75
5	Hillsborough	70
6	Darnall	66
7	Nether Edge and Sharrow	64
8	Walkley	56
9	Broomhill and Sharrow Vale	52
10	Ecclesall	35
11	Crookes and Crosspool	29

Which road in Sheffield has the highest level of crime?

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