Total Crime Rate
116.7 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
46.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Market Place area has the 20th highest crime rate of 49 local areas in Alfreton , and the 73rd highest crime rate of 386 local areas in Amber Valley .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Market Place (DE55 4HT) in the last 12 months was 116.7 per 1,000 residents and was 13.5% lower than the Alfreton average (134.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 11 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 14 (≈ 46.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -6.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -79.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Market Place (DE55 4HT), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Parking Area, where police recorded 65 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Smedley Avenue (24 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Somercotes| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | James Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Somercotes Hill | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Smedley Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Smedley Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Smedley Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Smedley Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Smedley Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Mill Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Mill Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | James Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mill Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bowns Yard | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bowns Yard | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | High Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | High Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Possession of weapons | Queen Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sherwood Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sherwood Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stringer Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Castle Drive | Under investigation |
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