Crime Statistics for Bierley, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bierley in September 2024. There were a total of 304 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bierley, 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	136
Burglary	31
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Public Order	20
Other Theft	19
Shoplifting	19
Vehicle Crime	10
Drugs	8
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	304

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 Bierley. 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 Bierley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dudley Hill (0.62 miles)	849
Laisterdyke (1.86 miles)	638
Bowling (0.88 miles)	477
Holme (0.88 miles)	438
Holme Wood (0.88 miles)	438
Tyersal (1.39 miles)	433
Tong Street (0.62 miles)	339
Bierley	304
Toftshaw (0.62 miles)	108
Birkenshaw (1.75 miles)	58

Where are the most violent places near Bierley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dudley Hill	399
Laisterdyke	287
Holme	273
Bowling	194
Tyersal	189
Holme Wood	188
Tong Street	166
Bierley	136
Toftshaw	51
Birkenshaw	19

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

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 Bierley 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 Bierley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Bowling and Barkerend	94
3	Wibsey	93
4	Little Horton	92
5	Royds	92
6	City	90
7	Great Horton	89
8	Wyke	88
9	Pudsey	77
10	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
11	Morley North	64

Which road in Bierley has the highest level of crime?

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