Crime Statistics for Little Chester, Derby, City of Derby, 2024

Is Little Chester rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 1248 incidents. 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 Little Chester, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime557
Anti Social Behaviour154
Shoplifting111
Other Theft97
Public Order96
Criminal Damage Arson56
Drugs48
Vehicle Crime36
Burglary33
Theft From The Person17
Robbery16
Other Crime13
Bicycle Theft8
Possession Of Weapons6
All Crime1248

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Little Chester1190
Markeaton Brook (0.38 miles)1022
Litchurch (1.39 miles)759
St Luke’s (1.76 miles)507
Breadsall Hilltop (0.88 miles)485
Oakwood (1.96 miles)380
Cherrytree Hill (1.96 miles)286
Markeaton (1.24 miles)249
Breadsall (1.75 miles)161
Allestree (1.39 miles)61

14.27%
of Darley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Little Chester?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Little Chester557
Markeaton Brook414
Litchurch276
St Luke’s239
Breadsall Hilltop218
Oakwood175
Cherrytree Hill131
Markeaton106
Breadsall59
Allestree22

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

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 Little Chester 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 Little Chester compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Arboretum81
2Abbey67
3Normanton66
4Darley63
5Mackworth61
6Derwent53
7Chaddesden39
8South West Parishes28
9Oakwood18
10Little Eaton & Stanley18
11Allestree11

Which road in Little Chester has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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