Crime Statistics for Cantley, Doncaster, Doncaster, 2024

Crime statistics for Cantley, Doncaster

There were a total of 69 street level crime incidents in Cantley in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cantley, 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 Crime30
Anti Social Behaviour13
Criminal Damage Arson8
Other Theft4
Burglary3
Shoplifting3
Public Order2
Drugs2
Other Crime2
Vehicle Crime2
All Crime69

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cantley. 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 Cantley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Intake (1.96 miles)542
Belle Vue (1.86 miles)149
Edenthorpe (2.56 miles)147
Doncaster Common (1.24 miles)143
Bessacarr (0.88 miles)100
Littleworth (2.48 miles)93
Armthorpe (1.24 miles)79
Nutwell (1.39 miles)70
Cantley69
Auckley (1.96 miles)28

13.22%
of Bessacarr residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cantley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Intake174
Belle Vue46
Edenthorpe44
Littleworth43
Bessacarr40
Doncaster Common33
Cantley30
Armthorpe26
Nutwell20
Auckley8

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

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 Cantley 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 Cantley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cantley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Cantley is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Hexthorpe & Balby North91
2Town87
3Wheatley Hills & Intake82
4Bentley82
5Balby South79
6Hatfield75
7Bessacarr66
8Edenthorpe & Kirk Sandall62
9Armthorpe57
10Tickhill & Wadsworth56
11Finningley43

Which road in Cantley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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