Crime Statistics for Spen, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spen in August 2024. There were a total of 187 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Spen, 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	83
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Public Order	16
Shoplifting	13
Vehicle Crime	9
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	7
Burglary	5
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	187

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 Spen. 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 Spen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gomersal (0.88 miles)	219
Oakwell (1.75 miles)	213
Spen	187
Rawfolds (0.62 miles)	166
Liversedge (1.39 miles)	158
Littletown (0.88 miles)	156
Drub (0.62 miles)	134
Oakenshaw (1.75 miles)	94
Birkenshaw Bottoms (1.75 miles)	90
Hartshead Moor Side (1.39 miles)	70

Where are the most violent places near Spen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gomersal	113
Oakwell	112
Littletown	92
Spen	83
Rawfolds	71
Drub	67
Birkenshaw Bottoms	41
Oakenshaw	40
Liversedge	39
Hartshead Moor Side	25

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

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 Spen 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 Spen compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Spen and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Spen is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Wyke	88
3	Batley West	88
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
6	Cleckheaton	73
7	Brighouse	71
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Rastrick	66
10	Morley North	64
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Spen has the highest level of crime?

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