Crime Statistics for Greenside, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Greenside in October 2024. There were a total of 244 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Greenside, 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	101
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Other Theft	25
Public Order	19
Shoplifting	17
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Burglary	13
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	4
Drugs	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	244

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moldgreen (1.24 miles)	528
Rawthorpe (0.88 miles)	399
Dalton (0.62 miles)	331
Greenside	244
Tandem	244
Fenay Bridge (0.88 miles)	208
Holme (1.37 miles)	182
Almondbury (0.88 miles)	155
Cockley Hill (0.88 miles)	153
Gawthorpe (1.24 miles)	100

Where are the most violent places near Greenside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Moldgreen	214
Rawthorpe	173
Dalton	142
Greenside	101
Tandem	101
Holme	90
Fenay Bridge	82
Gawthorpe	80
Cockley Hill	63
Almondbury	61

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

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 Greenside 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 Greenside compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
4	Ashbrow	72
5	Brighouse	71
6	Dalton	70
7	Golcar	63
8	Holme Valley North	57
9	Almondbury	56
10	Mirfield	53
11	Kirkburton	30

Which road in Greenside has the highest level of crime?

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