Crime Statistics for Bowling, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bowling in September 2024. There were a total of 477 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bowling, 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	194
Shoplifting	55
Burglary	45
Other Theft	35
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Public Order	31
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Vehicle Crime	23
Drugs	17
Other Crime	7
Robbery	7
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	477

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 Bowling. 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 Bowling

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Laisterdyke (1.39 miles)	1193
Little Horton (1.24 miles)	1122
Dudley Hill (0.62 miles)	849
Tyersal (1.39 miles)	543
Holme Wood (1.24 miles)	508
Bowling	477
Holme (1.24 miles)	387
Tong Street (1.39 miles)	367
Bierley (0.88 miles)	304
Toftshaw (1.39 miles)	133

Where are the most violent places near Bowling?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Horton	528
Laisterdyke	514
Dudley Hill	399
Holme	305
Tyersal	223
Holme Wood	218
Bowling	194
Tong Street	152
Bierley	136
Toftshaw	56

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

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 Bowling 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 Bowling compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bowling and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bowling is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bowling and Barkerend	94
2	Wibsey	93
3	Little Horton	92
4	Royds	92
5	Bolton and Undercliffe	92
6	City	90
7	Bradford Moor	90
8	Great Horton	89
9	Wyke	88
10	Manningham	86
11	Pudsey	77

Which road in Bowling has the highest level of crime?

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