Crime Statistics for New Smithy, High Peak, Derbyshire, 2024

Crime statistics for New Smithy, High Peak

There were a total of 25 street level crime incidents in New Smithy in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft7
Violent Crime5
Shoplifting3
Anti Social Behaviour3
Criminal Damage Arson2
Vehicle Crime2
Other Crime1
Burglary1
Public Order1
All Crime25

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 New Smithy. 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 New Smithy

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chapel Milton (0.62 miles)42
Townend (0.88 miles)41
Chapel-en-le-Frith (1.24 miles)34
Wash (0.62 miles)28
Bagshaw (1.39 miles)26
New Smithy25
Malcoff (1.24 miles)21
Bridgeholm Green (0.88 miles)14
Chinley7
Chinley Head (1.39 miles)3

3.44%
of Blackbrook (High Peak) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Smithy?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chapel Milton15
Townend15
Chapel-en-le-Frith12
Wash8
Bagshaw7
New Smithy5
Malcoff4
Bridgeholm Green4
Chinley2
Chinley Head0

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

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 New Smithy 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 New Smithy compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Disley45
2Corbar37
3New Mills East24
4New Mills West16
5Sett16
6Hayfield14
7Whaley Bridge10
8Limestone Peak10
9Chapel West9
10Chapel East8
11Blackbrook5

Which road in New Smithy has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in New Smithy 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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