Crime Statistics for Brierley, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brierley in October 2024. There were a total of 83 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Brierley, 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	23
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Vehicle Crime	5
Public Order	5
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	4
Drugs	4
Shoplifting	3
Burglary	2
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	83

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Brierley. 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 Brierley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hemsworth (1.96 miles)	158
Cudworth (2.24 miles)	118
South Kirkby (1.86 miles)	118
Upper Cudworth (1.96 miles)	90
Belle Green (1.39 miles)	87
Brierley	83
Felkirk (2.24 miles)	64
Cudworth Common (2.24 miles)	62
Grimethorpe (0.62 miles)	60
South Hiendley (1.75 miles)	35

Where are the most violent places near Brierley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hemsworth	64
Cudworth	51
South Kirkby	41
Upper Cudworth	35
Belle Green	30
Felkirk	30
Brierley	23
Cudworth Common	22
South Hiendley	18
Grimethorpe	11

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

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 Brierley 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 Brierley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brierley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brierley is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dearne North	92
2	St Helens	86
3	Royston	81
4	South Elmsall and South Kirkby	81
5	Monk Bretton	80
6	Stairfoot	79
7	Hemsworth	79
8	Darfield	78
9	Cudworth	73
10	North East	68
11	Crofton, Ryhill and Walton	59

Which road in Brierley has the highest level of crime?

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