South Yorkshire Police divides Sheffield into only five neighbourhood areas in its published data, each covering tens of thousands of homes. This page uses the city’s 28 electoral wards instead, measured the same way: every crime recorded inside the ward’s boundary during July 2026, the most recent month published.
Across Sheffield that came to 5,923 recorded incidents in the month. The typical ward recorded about 172. The quietest, Crookes and Crosspool, recorded 49; the busiest, City, recorded 756.
All 28 Sheffield wards, quietest first
Bars are relative to City, the highest count in the city.
What this ranking is, and what it is not
It is a count of incidents recorded in a place, not a risk-per-person figure, and we have not turned it into a safety score. The top of the table shows why.
City is the city-centre ward: the main shopping streets, the nightlife and much of the university quarter. Shoplifting (111) and anti-social behaviour (115) make up almost a third of its 756 incidents. Burngreave (483) and Darnall (422) follow. Darnall’s figure includes 101 shoplifting offences — nearly a quarter of its total, which points to retail sites rather than homes. Without them it would sit much closer to its neighbours.
The quiet end is the south-west of the city — Crookes and Crosspool, Fulwood, Dore and Totley and Ecclesall — where the four quietest wards together recorded fewer incidents (241) than Burngreave did on its own.
The violent crime split
Violence and sexual offences are published by the police as one merged category, so that victims cannot be identified from street-level data. Across Sheffield it accounted for 2,066 of the 5,923 incidents — about 35 per cent. Anti-social behaviour is unusually prominent in Sheffield’s figures: 1,032 incidents, almost exactly the same as Leeds (1,042), which recorded over 3,500 more incidents in total.
Among wards with at least 100 incidents the violent share runs from 22 per cent in Beighton, where anti-social behaviour is the largest single category, to 55 per cent in Stannington — on a total of 114. A high share of a small number describes a different situation from a high count.
How this was measured
Street-level crime data published by South Yorkshire Police through data.police.uk, covering July 2026, the most recent month available at the time of writing. Ward boundaries are the Office for National Statistics’ published electoral ward boundaries (December 2024). For each of the 28 wards we queried every crime falling inside that boundary and counted the results by category. The counts are exact counts of the returned records, not estimates.
To keep each query within the police API’s limits, every boundary was traced with about 45 points rather than its full outline. The effect is small, but an incident recorded right on the line between two wards can land on either side of it, so treat neighbouring wards separated by a handful of incidents as level.
Two caveats that apply to every number here. First, this is recorded crime — incidents reported to and logged by the police. Anything not reported is not in it. Second, the published location of each crime is snapped to a nearby anonymised point rather than the exact address, so a single street corner in the data may represent several addresses around it. That is a privacy protection working as designed, and it means these figures describe areas, not addresses.
Look up a specific address
A ward is still a large area. To see twelve months of data around one postcode, or to compare two directly, use our address checker.
For a shorter guide to the quieter parts of the city, see safest areas in Sheffield. For how Sheffield compares with other cities, see crime in Sheffield and the police force crime rate ranking. Ward-level ranks for other cities: Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool. Whatever the numbers say about an area, they are no substitute for calling 999 in an emergency.
Crime data: South Yorkshire Police street-level crime via data.police.uk, July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Ward boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0.