Crime Statistics for Nether Heage, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Nether Heage, Amber Valley

There were a total of 14 street level crime incidents in Nether Heage in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Nether Heage, 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 Crime4
Other Crime3
Public Order2
Other Theft2
Criminal Damage Arson1
Anti Social Behaviour1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime14

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 Nether Heage. 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 Nether Heage

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Far Laund (1.24 miles)66
Upper Hartshay (1.24 miles)31
Boothgate (0.88 miles)28
Lower Hartshay (1.39 miles)21
Bullbridge (1.39 miles)15
Nether Heage14
Amber Valley (1.67 miles)13
Broadholm (1.39 miles)10
Heage (0.62 miles)8
Toadmoor (0.62 miles)5

2.78%
of Heage and Ambergate residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Nether Heage?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Far Laund31
Boothgate13
Upper Hartshay11
Lower Hartshay9
Bullbridge5
Amber Valley5
Nether Heage4
Broadholm3
Heage2
Toadmoor1

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

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 Nether Heage 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 Nether Heage compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ripley34
2Heanor and Loscoe26
3Ripley and Marehay20
4Codnor and Waingroves19
5Belper East12
6Wingfield12
7Belper Central11
8Belper South9
9Swanwick6
10Heage and Ambergate6
11Belper North2

Which road in Nether Heage has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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