Crime Statistics for Highgate, Barnsley, 2025

Is Highgate rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 166 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 Highgate, 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	64
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Vehicle Crime	18
Public Order	11
Other Theft	9
Burglary	8
Other Crime	8
Shoplifting	4
Robbery	2
All Crime	166

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Thurnscoe East (1.39 miles)	156
Adwick upon Dearne (1.75 miles)	153
Thurnscoe (1.24 miles)	142
Highgate	132
Little Houghton (2.24 miles)	114
Bolton Upton Dearne (0.62 miles)	69
Millhouses (1.96 miles)	52
Harlington (1.96 miles)	30
Billingley (1.39 miles)	17
Barnburgh (1.86 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Highgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Houghton	96
Highgate	64
Adwick upon Dearne	63
Thurnscoe East	62
Thurnscoe	41
Millhouses	22
Bolton Upton Dearne	18
Barnburgh	17
Harlington	15
Billingley	9

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

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 Highgate 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 Highgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Highgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Highgate is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dearne North	92
2	Mexborough	86
3	Worsbrough	82
4	South Elmsall and South Kirkby	81
5	Conisbrough	79
6	Darfield	78
7	Dearne South	74
8	Wombwell	73
9	Swinton	69
10	North East	68
11	Wath	68

Which road in Highgate has the highest level of crime?

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