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Sheffield

Location profile

Sheffield

Recorded-crime evidence, signal environment, and briefing context for Sheffield.

Location profileValidated 12-month data

Police.uk · 2025-07 to 2026-06 · 12 audited months

65,520

Recorded incidents · 12 months

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Signals

12-month incidents

65,520

2025-07 to 2026-06 · Police.uk

Latest month

5,733

2026-06

Audited coverage

12 months

ONS boundary-filtered and reconciled

Leading category

21,614

violent crime

Insights

Insight 1

65,520 Police.uk records passed all 12 monthly boundary, identity and reconciliation checks.

Insight 2

violent crime was the largest recorded category at 33.0% of the audited total.

Insight 3

2026-06 recorded 1.2% fewer incidents than the previous month.

Insight 4

These are absolute recorded-incident counts, not a risk score or an address-level prediction.

Data & methodology

These public figures are absolute Police.uk incident counts. Every month passed the approved ONS boundary, source-provenance, identity-deduplication and audit-reconciliation gate. Population-normalised rates and composite scores remain withheld.

Disclaimer: historical data does not guarantee future outcomes. Always follow local authority guidance.

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Validated public data

Recorded crime in Sheffield

Absolute Police.uk records assigned to the current Sheffield local-authority boundary after deduplication, boundary filtering and monthly audit reconciliation.

12 audited months

12-month total

65,520

Jul 2025–Jun 2026

Jun 2026

5,733

Latest audited month

Monthly change

-1.2%

Versus May 2026

Leading category

Violent Crime

21,614 records · 33.0%

Monthly totals

Jul 20255,968
Aug 20255,569

Open-source intelligence

Signal environment

Open-source communications context for Sheffield. Area-IQ publishes a layer only after its source, geographic coverage, freshness and reuse terms pass validation.

1 layer available

Mobile coverage

Source integration pending

Operator and technology coverage, subject to source and licence validation.

Licensed radio environment

Available

Ofcom records 237 distinct licensed locations and 896 assignments within 10 km of the city centre.

Locations
237
Assignments
896
Transmit
448

Latest briefs for Sheffield

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Sept 20255,416
Oct 20255,815
Nov 20255,304
Dec 20255,075
Jan 20264,989
Feb 20264,820
Mar 20265,698
Apr 20265,332
May 20265,801
Jun 20265,733

Category totals

Violent Crime21,614

33.0% of the audited 12-month total

Anti Social Behaviour11,098

16.9% of the audited 12-month total

Shoplifting6,312

9.6% of the audited 12-month total

Criminal Damage Arson5,244

8.0% of the audited 12-month total

Public Order4,790

7.3% of the audited 12-month total

Vehicle Crime3,588

5.5% of the audited 12-month total

Source: Police.uk street-level crime API. Geography: ONS May 2025 LAD boundary. Counts represent recorded incidents with approximate published locations, not a risk score or proof of offences at an exact address. Last extraction audit: 29 Aug 2026.

Nearest
0.1 km
  • Leading bands: UHF (300 MHz–1 GHz) (582), Above 30 GHz (112), Microwave (6–30 GHz) (108).
  • WTR shows licensed rights of use, not confirmed live transmissions.
  • Individual mobile sites are generally absent because operators hold block spectrum assignments.
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: Ofcom Wireless Telegraphy Register · Source updated 17 Jul 2026

Spectrum & licences

Source integration pending

Relevant UK spectrum allocations and publicly available licence records.

GNSS resilience

Source integration pending

Public disruption reports and known limitations, without live device tracking.

Satellite visibility

Source integration pending

Public orbital and coverage context for the selected area and time window.

Terrain & line-of-sight

Source integration pending

Terrain-aware visibility and communications-path context between selected points.

Internet infrastructure

Source integration pending

Public exchanges, data centres and major network-route context.

Public records describe licensed rights of use and predicted coverage—not confirmed real-time activity. This layer does not identify individual devices or provide live tracking.