Crime Statistics for Great Houghton, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Houghton in August 2024. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson4
Violent Crime4
Public Order2
Burglary2
Shoplifting1
Other Theft1
Anti Social Behaviour1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime16

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Great Houghton. 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 Great Houghton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Highgate (2.24 miles)217
Thurnscoe East (1.96 miles)190
Thurnscoe (1.39 miles)160
Millhouses (1.39 miles)92
Little Houghton (0.88 miles)85
Grimethorpe (2.24 miles)46
Cudworth Common (2.56 miles)31
Billingley (1.24 miles)19
Great Houghton16
Sandhill16

4.98%
of North East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Houghton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Highgate144
Thurnscoe East67
Thurnscoe51
Millhouses36
Little Houghton35
Grimethorpe30
Cudworth Common12
Billingley5
Great Houghton4
Sandhill4

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

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 Great Houghton 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 Great Houghton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Dearne North92
2Worsbrough82
3South Elmsall and South Kirkby81
4Stairfoot79
5Darfield78
6Dearne South74
7Cudworth73
8Wombwell73
9North East68
10Wath68
11Hoyland Milton64

Which road in Great Houghton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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