Crime Statistics for Cross Hill, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Cross Hill, Amber Valley

There were a total of 29 street level crime incidents in Cross Hill in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cross Hill, 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 Crime17
Criminal Damage Arson4
Burglary2
Anti Social Behaviour2
Drugs1
Vehicle Crime1
Other Theft1
Public Order1
All Crime29

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 Cross Hill. 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 Cross Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Codnor Gate (1.24 miles)184
Common Side (1.76 miles)117
Heanor (1.76 miles)117
Greenhillocks (0.88 miles)112
Peasehill (0.88 miles)112
Loscoe (0.88 miles)91
Codnor (0.62 miles)75
Cross Hill29
Marehay (1.24 miles)16
Codnor Breach (0.88 miles)5

2.51%
of Heanor and Loscoe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cross Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Codnor Gate78
Common Side62
Heanor62
Greenhillocks58
Peasehill58
Loscoe53
Codnor39
Cross Hill17
Marehay9
Codnor Breach1

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

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 Cross Hill 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 Cross Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Eastwood St Mary's76
2Heanor West52
3Ironville and Riddings40
4Heanor East38
5Ripley34
6Heanor and Loscoe26
7Ripley and Marehay20
8Codnor and Waingroves19
9Belper East12
10Swanwick6
11Heage and Ambergate6

Which road in Cross Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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