Crime in Sheffield
Thinking about Sheffield? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try leeds, manchester, nottingham too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Sheffield centre
1,276crimes recorded in July 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 363
- Shoplifting 209
- Anti-social behaviour 203
- Public order 125
- 10 other categories 376
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences363
- Shoplifting209
- Anti-social behaviour203
- Public order125
- Other theft82
- Criminal damage & arson63
- Vehicle crime49
- Burglary48
- Robbery31
- Drugs25
- Bicycle theft23
- Other crime23
- Theft from the person20
- Possession of weapons12
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Sheffield. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Sheffield a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Sheffield for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Sheffield crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Sheffield?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Sheffield. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.