Crime Statistics for Norwood, Derbyshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Norwood, Norwood

There were a total of 39 street level crime incidents in Norwood in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Norwood, 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 Crime9
Burglary6
Criminal Damage Arson6
Anti Social Behaviour4
Other Crime4
Vehicle Crime3
Public Order3
Other Theft2
Shoplifting1
Drugs1
All Crime39

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 Norwood. 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 Norwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Waterthorpe (1.96 miles)199
Beighton (1.75 miles)155
Halfway (1.86 miles)106
Holbrook (1.24 miles)104
Norwood39
Chesterfield Canal (0.06 miles)39
High Moor (0.62 miles)32
Killamarsh (0.88 miles)29
Spinkhill (1.96 miles)17
Harthill (1.96 miles)9

2.98%
of Killamarsh East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Norwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Waterthorpe65
Beighton48
Halfway37
Holbrook32
Norwood9
Chesterfield Canal9
High Moor9
Killamarsh8
Spinkhill7
Harthill2

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

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 Norwood 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 Norwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Woodhouse80
2Holderness69
3Rother Vale66
4Wales46
5Beighton45
6Eckington South & Renishaw30
7Eckington North30
8Barrow Hill and New Whittington29
9Killamarsh West21
10Barlborough21
11Killamarsh East16

Which road in Norwood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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