Crime Statistics for Hartshead, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hartshead 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 Vehicle Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Public Order	3
Other Theft	2
Drugs	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	16

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 Hartshead. 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 Hartshead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rawfolds (1.39 miles)	166
Liversedge (1.39 miles)	158
Littletown (1.75 miles)	156
Colne Bridge (1.39 miles)	87
Moor Top (0.88 miles)	80
Hartshead Moor Side (1.39 miles)	70
Battyeford (1.39 miles)	68
Upper Heaton (1.86 miles)	48
Hartshead	16
Little Thorpe	16

Where are the most violent places near Hartshead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Littletown	92
Rawfolds	71
Liversedge	39
Colne Bridge	39
Battyeford	30
Hartshead Moor Side	25
Moor Top	23
Upper Heaton	21
Hartshead	1
Little Thorpe	1

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

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 Hartshead 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 Hartshead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hartshead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hartshead is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Greenhead	83
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Cleckheaton	73
6	Ashbrow	72
7	Brighouse	71
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Rastrick	66
10	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57
11	Mirfield	53

Which road in Hartshead has the highest level of crime?

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