Crime Statistics for Notton, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Notton in September 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	2

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 Notton. 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 Notton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Staincross (1.96 miles)	215
Royston (1.39 miles)	153
Chapelthorpe (2.24 miles)	95
Pledwick (1.96 miles)	66
Newmillerdam (1.75 miles)	58
Painthorpe (2.24 miles)	55
Crigglestone (2.24 miles)	55
Hall Green (2.24 miles)	55
Cold Hiendley (1.96 miles)	7
Notton	2

Where are the most violent places near Notton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Staincross	172
Royston	88
Newmillerdam	56
Chapelthorpe	50
Crigglestone	33
Painthorpe	30
Hall Green	30
Pledwick	27
Cold Hiendley	2
Notton	0

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

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 Notton 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 Notton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Helens	86
2	Royston	81
3	Monk Bretton	80
4	Hemsworth	79
5	Cudworth	73
6	Old Town	67
7	Crofton, Ryhill and Walton	59
8	Darton East	55
9	Horbury and South Ossett	51
10	Wakefield Rural	49
11	Darton West	43

Which road in Notton has the highest level of crime?

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