Is S2 a safe place to live?

S2 scores 2 out of 10 for safety (high crime), compared with every postcode district in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Crime severity is 1.3 times the Sheffield average.

Is crime going up or down in S2?

Down 14% over 5 years, from 6,299 recorded crimes a year to 5,428.

What is the most common crime in S2?

The most common recorded crime is violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences), about 43 per 1,000 residents a year.

How does crime in S2 compare with Sheffield?

Crime severity in S2 is 1.3 times the Sheffield average.

How many burglaries are solved in S2?

Of 347 burglaries reported in S2 between September 2024 and August 2025, 2% led to someone being charged or summonsed and 86% were closed with no suspect identified.

S2 crime rate 2026 and crime map (Sheffield)

Safety and Living

Safety

What it measures. How serious the crime recorded here is, not how much of it there is. Each recorded crime is weighted by the typical sentence for that kind of offence (the Office for National Statistics Crime Severity Score), so a robbery counts about 76 times a shoplifting offence. The total per resident is ranked against every neighbourhood. 10 means among the safest tenth.

Data. Street-level crime from data.police.uk, September 2016 to August 2026. Weights: ONS Crime Severity Score, year ending March 2025.

Anti-social behaviour is not a crime and has no weight, so it is left out of the score. It is shown on its own line.
The weights come from sentences in 2015-2019 and one weight covers a whole police.uk category: violence includes both minor assaults and rape, and the data does not say which. A town with more serious cases than the national mix is under-scored.
Some forces have missing months (Greater Manchester published nothing after June 2019). We use the months that exist and say so on the page.
A neighbourhood's score is blended with the neighbourhoods around it, because police.uk records each crime at an approximate location, often the middle of a street that sits on a boundary. Three quarters is its own rate, one quarter the average of the neighbourhoods it touches, weighted by residents. Crimes recorded on a map point within 30 m of a neighbourhood boundary are shared equally between the neighbourhoods on each side, because the point usually sits on the boundary road itself. Where the map shows a neighbourhood's score, its own score is shown as well when it differs.
Busy city and town centres are not scored: few people live there and many visit, so crime per resident would mislead.
It counts crimes that were reported and recorded, not every crime. In Scotland there is no Safety score yet; Living covers it.
On the map you can filter by crime type. The filter changes the crime figures, the Safety score and the map colours, and compares with the national figure for the same types.
Crime Rates Map is a guide, not advice. Visit the area before you decide.

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Crime severity: 1.3× the Sheffield average (1.5× the England and Wales average)

Crime only, by how serious it is. Compared with every postcode district. Higher is safer.

Living

Based on schools, transport, health, supermarkets, weighted by importance. Crime is not part of it. Higher is better.

Shops, transport, schools and health

Distances are straight-line, not walking routes. Scores use fixed distance bands, so they do not depend on other districts. Higher is better.

Supermarkets

Good accessScore 7 out of 10

Typical distance to a large supermarket: 1.8 km.
Makro Sheffield (Makro), 2.6 km from the district centre
Tesco Sheffield Extra (Tesco), 2.6 km from the district centre
M&S Fargate Sheffield (Marks and Spencer), 2.8 km from the district centre

Transport

Excellent accessScore 9 out of 10

Typical number of bus stops within 400 m: 8.
Nearest railway station: Sheffield Rail Station, 2.0 km from the district centre
Nearest tram or metro stop: Arbourthorne Road Platform to City, 580 m from the district centre

Schools

Good schools nearbyScore 8 out of 10

Primary schools within 2 km

Pipworth Community Primary School: Good (graded inspection, 2024), 100 m away
Arbourthorne Community Primary School: Good (graded inspection, 2022), 150 m away
Wybourn Community Primary & Nursery School: Good (ungraded inspection, 2019), 220 m away
Lowfield Community Primary School: Good (ungraded inspection, 2022), 220 m away
Carfield Primary School: Strong standard (report card, 2026), 650 m away

Secondary schools within 2 km

Sheffield Park Academy: Good (ungraded inspection, 2022), 340 m away
All Saints' Catholic High School: Expected standard (report card, 2026), 510 m away
Newfield Secondary School: Expected standard (report card, 2026), 1.1 km away
Astrea Academy Sheffield: Good (graded inspection, 2022), 1.5 km away

Health

Excellent accessScore 9 out of 10

Nearest GP surgery: NORFOLK PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 550 m from the district centre, CQC rating: Good, rated 2018
Nearest hospital with A&E: Sheffield Children's Hospital A&E, 5.1 km from the district centre

Crime by type

Recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, most serious first, not counting anti-social behaviour.

Type	Per 1,000 a year
Robbery	1.8
Burglary	8.3
Violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences)	43.0
Drugs	4.2
Possession of weapons (knives and other weapons)	1.8
Other crime	3.2
Other theft	9.8
Theft from the person (pickpocketing, bag snatching)	1.1
Vehicle crime (cars stolen and broken into)	11.2
Criminal damage and arson (vandalism)	15.5
Public order	11.2
Bicycle theft	1.3
Shoplifting	7.0

How often crimes lead to a charge

In S2, 6% of crimes reported between September 2024 and August 2025 led to someone being charged or summonsed (England and Wales: 9%).

Charged or summonsed
Caution or other action
Suspect found, not prosecuted
No suspect identified
Still open

Show as a table

Type	Crimes	Charged or summonsed	Caution or other action	Suspect found, not prosecuted	No suspect identified	Still open
Violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences)	2,438	6%	5%	68%	15%	6%
Criminal damage and arson (vandalism)	733	3%	3%	24%	68%	1%
Vehicle crime (cars stolen and broken into)	678	2%	0%	5%	91%	1%
Public order	497	4%	5%	50%	38%	3%
Other theft	363	1%	1%	29%	66%	3%
Burglary	347	2%	1%	8%	86%	3%
Shoplifting	318	21%	2%	13%	63%	1%
Drugs	295	17%	24%	21%	33%	5%
Other crime	214	9%	4%	57%	20%	10%
Possession of weapons (knives and other weapons)	88	28%	1%	45%	18%	7%
Robbery	87	13%	0%	33%	48%	6%
Bicycle theft	66	0%	0%	9%	89%	2%

Uses the latest outcome police have recorded so far. 4% of these crimes are still open, so the final figures may be a little higher.

Trend over the years

Crime severity per resident (sentence-days of the crimes recorded each year). Hatched bars are years with fewer than twelve months of data for most residents.

Last 12 months: 23.4 against a 10-year average of 22.5, 4% higher.

Questions about crime in S2

Is S2 a safe place to live?: S2 scores 2 out of 10 for safety (high crime), compared with every postcode district in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Crime severity is 1.3 times the Sheffield average.
Is crime going up or down in S2?: Down 14% over 5 years, from 6,299 recorded crimes a year to 5,428.
What is the most common crime in S2?: The most common recorded crime is violence and sexual offences (assaults, harassment, sexual offences), about 43 per 1,000 residents a year.
How does crime in S2 compare with Sheffield?: Crime severity in S2 is 1.3 times the Sheffield average.
How often does crime lead to a charge in S2?: In S2, 6% of crimes reported between September 2024 and August 2025 led to someone being charged or summonsed (England and Wales: 9%). 44% were closed without a suspect being identified.
How many burglaries are solved in S2?: Of 347 burglaries reported in S2 between September 2024 and August 2025, 2% led to someone being charged or summonsed and 86% were closed with no suspect identified.

Nearest town

Sheffield

Council: Sheffield

S2 crime rate and crime map