Crime Statistics for Hemingfield, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hemingfield in September 2024. There were a total of 58 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 Hemingfield, 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	16
Shoplifting	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	7
Other Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Theft	3
Public Order	3
All Crime	58

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 Hemingfield. 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 Hemingfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wath-upon-Dearne (2.56 miles)	232
Jump (0.62 miles)	155
Platts Common (1.86 miles)	144
Milton (1.39 miles)	138
Broomhill (1.39 miles)	123
Blacker Hill (1.96 miles)	82
Hemingfield	58
Hoober (2.24 miles)	13
Barrow (2.24 miles)	5
Cortworth (1.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Hemingfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wath-upon-Dearne	109
Jump	50
Broomhill	40
Platts Common	33
Milton	27
Hemingfield	16
Blacker Hill	15
Hoober	11
Barrow	1
Cortworth	1

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

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 Hemingfield 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 Hemingfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Wingfield	86
2	Worsbrough	82
3	Stairfoot	79
4	Darfield	78
5	Wombwell	73
6	Keppel	70
7	North East	68
8	Wath	68
9	Rockingham	66
10	Hoober	64
11	Hoyland Milton	64

Which road in Hemingfield has the highest level of crime?

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