Crime Statistics for Ashgate, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Ashgate, Chesterfield

There were a total of 138 street level crime incidents in Ashgate in January 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 Ashgate, 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 Crime60
Anti Social Behaviour17
Other Theft15
Public Order11
Criminal Damage Arson8
Vehicle Crime7
Burglary7
Shoplifting5
Other Crime4
Robbery2
Possession Of Weapons1
Drugs1
All Crime138

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ashgate. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Ashgate

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chesterfield (1.24 miles)402
Stonegravels (1.39 miles)397
Boythorpe (0.88 miles)266
Newbold (1.39 miles)255
Dunston (1.24 miles)152
Ashgate138
Loundsley Green (0.88 miles)81
Brookside (0.88 miles)20
Cutthorpe (1.75 miles)18
Walton (1.24 miles)13

3.34%
of West (Chesterfield) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ashgate?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chesterfield134
Stonegravels130
Newbold110
Boythorpe78
Dunston72
Ashgate60
Loundsley Green33
Brookside10
Cutthorpe7
Walton6

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

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 Ashgate 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 Ashgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ashgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Ashgate have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is St Helen's.

#WardScore
1St Helen's49
2Rother41
3St Leonard's40
4Holmebrook27
5Hasland23
6Loundsley Green21
7Brockwell20
8Linacre10
9Brampton & Walton3
10Walton3
11West3

Which road in Ashgate has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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