Crime Statistics for South Lane, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Lane in October 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime1

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 South Lane. 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 South Lane

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Spring Vale (1.96 miles)50
Moor End (2.24 miles)26
Silkstone (1.39 miles)16
Cat Hill (UK) (1.39 miles)10
Cawthorne (1.39 miles)6
Lower Denby (1.96 miles)5
Raw Green (0.88 miles)2
Tivy Dale (0.88 miles)1
South Lane1
Nether End (1.39 miles)1

2.62%
of Denby Dale residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near South Lane?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Spring Vale18
Moor End12
Silkstone5
Cat Hill (UK)5
Cawthorne2
Lower Denby0
Raw Green0
Tivy Dale0
South Lane0
Nether End0

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

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 South Lane 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 South Lane compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Lane and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in South Lane have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Kingstone.

#WardScore
1Kingstone86
2St Helens86
3Central84
4Old Town67
5Darton East55
6Penistone East51
7Wakefield Rural49
8Dodworth45
9Darton West43
10Holme Valley South42
11Denby Dale32

Which road in South Lane has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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