Total Crime Rate
481.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
211.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Sheardown Street area has the 10th highest crime rate of 68 local areas in Hexthorpe & Balby North , and the 33rd highest crime rate of 1,001 local areas in Doncaster .
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 Sheardown Street (DN4 0BH) in the last 12 months was 481.0 per 1,000 residents and was 104.9% higher than the Hexthorpe & Balby North average (234.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 44 offences recorded. The least common crime was Theft from the person with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 16.7% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 61 (≈ 211.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -12.9% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -46.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Sheardown Street (DN4 0BH), the main crime hotspot is near Denison Road. Police recorded 126 crimes here, including 63 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Doncaster| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Mutual Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hexthorpe Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Abbott Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Abbott Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Abbott Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hexthorpe Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Hexthorpe Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Flowitt Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Flowitt Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Flowitt Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Hexthorpe Road | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Denison Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hexthorpe Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Hexthorpe Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crimpsall Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Denison Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Denison Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Denison Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Denison Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Denison Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Denison Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Denison Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Denison Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Denison Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Denison Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Denison Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Abbott Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crimpsall Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Crimpsall Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Ellerker Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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