Crime Statistics for Great Houghton, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Houghton in October 2024. There were a total of 33 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 Great Houghton, 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	8
Vehicle Crime	5
Burglary	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Other Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	33

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 Great Houghton. 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 Great Houghton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Thurnscoe East (1.96 miles)	189
Thurnscoe (1.39 miles)	162
Millhouses (1.39 miles)	149
Highgate (2.24 miles)	105
Little Houghton (0.88 miles)	84
Cudworth Common (2.56 miles)	62
Grimethorpe (2.24 miles)	60
Great Houghton	33
Billingley (1.24 miles)	26
Sandhill	22

Where are the most violent places near Great Houghton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Thurnscoe East	68
Thurnscoe	60
Highgate	42
Millhouses	36
Cudworth Common	22
Little Houghton	19
Sandhill	13
Grimethorpe	11
Great Houghton	8
Billingley	4

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

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 Great Houghton 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 Great Houghton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Houghton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Great Houghton is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dearne North	92
2	Worsbrough	82
3	South Elmsall and South Kirkby	81
4	Stairfoot	79
5	Darfield	78
6	Dearne South	74
7	Cudworth	73
8	Wombwell	73
9	North East	68
10	Wath	68
11	Hoyland Milton	64

Which road in Great Houghton has the highest level of crime?

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