Revealed: The most dangerous areas in Doncaster

Unfortunately, there is a lot of people across the UK who break the law and this figure continues to rise with an increase of four per cent in 2023 compared to the previous year. These crimes can cause harm to others both physically and mentally.

Due to this constant rise, West Midlands Garage Doors and Online Marketing Surgery have created their Comprehensive Crime Report, which helped rank Doncaster neighbourhoods as well as South Yorkshire areas by their reported crimes.

Key Findings:

Central Doncaster & Hyde Park is the most dangerous area in the city of Doncaster as they have the most crimes with 6,793 recorded.

The area with the least crimes is Cantley Park with 521 recorded.

Doncaster had the second most crimes reported last year in South Yorkshire with 42,424. These figures relate to 2022-2023.

Other areas are as follows:

Balby Carr 1,894

Wheatley Hills 1,539

Intake 1,455

Hexthorpe & Balby North 1,206

Balby South 1,117

Bessacarr Bawtry Road 771

Bessacarr Grange & Lakeside 576

Crimes reported in South Yorkshire areas are as follows:

Sheffield 61,205

Doncaster 42,424

Barnsley 27,245

Rotherham 26,967

Methodology:

· Data has been used from CrimeRate, which revealed crime data in the city of Doncaster for 2022-2023.

· Also, data from the Office for National Statistics has been used, which revealed 2023 recorded crime data for each individual local authority in the UK.