Crime Statistics for Staincliffe, Batley, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Staincliffe in September 2024. There were a total of 861 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Staincliffe, 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	377
Public Order	102
Anti Social Behaviour	88
Other Theft	78
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Other Crime	34
Vehicle Crime	28
Burglary	24
Shoplifting	24
Drugs	18
Possession Of Weapons	12
Theft From The Person	12
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	861

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 Staincliffe. 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 Staincliffe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Staincliffe	773
Hanging Heaton (1.24 miles)	680
Batley (0.88 miles)	648
Lower Soothill (1.39 miles)	528
Carlinghow (0.62 miles)	444
Batley Carr	442
Upper Batley (1.39 miles)	273
Boothroyd (1.24 miles)	248
Healey (0.88 miles)	217
Heckmondwike (1.24 miles)	204

Where are the most violent places near Staincliffe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Soothill	448
Staincliffe	377
Hanging Heaton	295
Batley	286
Boothroyd	249
Healey	214
Carlinghow	202
Batley Carr	200
Upper Batley	114
Heckmondwike	94

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

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 Staincliffe 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 Staincliffe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Staincliffe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Staincliffe is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Dewsbury East	81
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Batley East	76
6	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
7	Cleckheaton	73
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Morley South	65
10	Ossett	63
11	Dewsbury South	63

Which road in Staincliffe has the highest level of crime?

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