Crime Statistics for Townhead, Sheffield, Sheffield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Townhead in September 2024. There were a total of 24 incidents. 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 Townhead, 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
Anti Social Behaviour5
Burglary4
Vehicle Crime3
Public Order2
Other Theft1
All Crime24

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Totley Rise (1.39 miles)70
Dore (0.62 miles)55
Abbeydale Park (0.88 miles)54
Abbeydale (1.39 miles)42
Millhouses (1.75 miles)40
Parkhead (1.75 miles)40
Brick Houses39
Totley Brook (0.88 miles)34
Totley (1.24 miles)17
Townhead15

7.2%
of Dore and Totley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Townhead?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Dore20
Abbeydale Park16
Millhouses15
Parkhead15
Abbeydale13
Brick Houses11
Totley Rise9
Townhead9
Totley Brook8
Totley3

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

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 Townhead 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 Townhead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Townhead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Townhead is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Beauchief and Greenhill64
2Nether Edge and Sharrow64
3Ecclesall35
4Dore and Totley28
5Fulwood24
6Hathersage and Eyam17
7Coal Aston14
8Dronfield Woodhouse11
9Barlow & Holmesfield10
10Gosforth Valley5
11Dronfield South2

Which road in Townhead has the highest level of crime?

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

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