Crime Statistics for Ryhill, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ryhill in September 2024. There were a total of 41 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ryhill, 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	15
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Theft	6
Public Order	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Burglary	1
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	41

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 Ryhill. 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 Ryhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hemsworth (2.55 miles)	111
New Crofton (1.86 miles)	56
Newstead (0.62 miles)	48
South Hiendley (1.39 miles)	44
Fitzwilliam (1.96 miles)	43
Ryhill	41
Felkirk (1.24 miles)	41
Crofton (1.86 miles)	28
Foulby (1.96 miles)	21
Cold Hiendley (0.62 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Ryhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Crofton	74
Hemsworth	55
Fitzwilliam	25
Felkirk	25
Newstead	19
Crofton	19
South Hiendley	17
Ryhill	15
Foulby	15
Cold Hiendley	2

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

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 Ryhill 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 Ryhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ryhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Ryhill have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is St Helens.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Helens	86
2	Royston	81
3	South Elmsall and South Kirkby	81
4	Monk Bretton	80
5	Hemsworth	79
6	Normanton	74
7	Cudworth	73
8	Wakefield South	67
9	Featherstone	66
10	Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton	61
11	Crofton, Ryhill and Walton	59

Which road in Ryhill has the highest level of crime?

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