Crime Statistics for Halifax, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halifax in September 2024. There were a total of 673 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Halifax, 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	248
Drugs	78
Shoplifting	68
Public Order	58
Other Theft	45
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Burglary	35
Vehicle Crime	35
Other Crime	21
Theft From The Person	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	673

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 Halifax. 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 Halifax

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Boothtown (0.88 miles)	1380
Claremount	1220
Halifax	673
Stoney Royd (0.62 miles)	582
Pellon (1.24 miles)	386
Bank Top (0.88 miles)	295
Siddal (1.39 miles)	123
Dam Head (1.39 miles)	104
Southowram (1.75 miles)	85
Northowram (1.39 miles)	46

Where are the most violent places near Halifax?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Boothtown	579
Claremount	459
Stoney Royd	257
Halifax	248
Bank Top	231
Pellon	160
Siddal	57
Dam Head	44
Southowram	39
Northowram	13

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

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 Halifax 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 Halifax compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Halifax and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Halifax is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ovenden	95
2	Clayton and Fairweather Green	91
3	Park	86
4	Warley	81
5	Town	79
6	Queensbury	78
7	Skircoat	76
8	Sowerby Bridge	72
9	Elland	68
10	Northowram and Shelf	66
11	Luddendenfoot	64

Which road in Halifax has the highest level of crime?

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