Crime Statistics for Bruntcliffe, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bruntcliffe in September 2024. There were a total of 177 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bruntcliffe, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	48
Shoplifting	43
Other Theft	17
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Public Order	13
Vehicle Crime	12
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Other Crime	10
Burglary	8
Drugs	1
All Crime	177

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bruntcliffe. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bruntcliffe

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bruntcliffe and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bruntcliffe has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Upper Batley (1.39 miles)	273
Daisy Hill (0.88 miles)	269
Morley (0.62 miles)	253
Bantam Grove (1.24 miles)	240
Bruntcliffe	177
Copley Hill (1.39 miles)	134
Birks (0.88 miles)	97
Topcliffe (1.39 miles)	92
Adwalton (1.39 miles)	80
Gildersome Street (0.88 miles)	74

Where are the most violent places near Bruntcliffe?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bruntcliffe and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Upper Batley	114
Daisy Hill	91
Morley	84
Bantam Grove	78
Copley Hill	52
Bruntcliffe	48
Birks	35
Topcliffe	33
Adwalton	31
Gildersome Street	28

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bruntcliffe?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bruntcliffe to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bruntcliffe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bruntcliffe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bruntcliffe is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Dewsbury West	89
3	Batley West	88
4	Dewsbury East	81
5	Heckmondwike	81
6	Batley East	76
7	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Morley South	65
10	Morley North	64
11	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62

Which road in Bruntcliffe has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bruntcliffe with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.