Crime Statistics for Pools Brook, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Nov 2020

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Pools Brook using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so December 2020 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 24 street level crime incidents in Pools Brook in December 2020. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pools Brook, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	12
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Public Order	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	24

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2020

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

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 Pools Brook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Netherthorpe (0.62 miles)	90
Mastin Moor (1 miles)	49
New Bolsover (2.24 miles)	49
Inkersall Green (1.94 miles)	45
Inkersall (1.94 miles)	45
Shuttlewood (1.14 miles)	26
Poolsbrook (0.55 miles)	25
Pools Brook	24
Long Duckmanton (1.57 miles)	7
Duckmanton (1 miles)	5

3.8%
of Chesterfield residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Pools Brook

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