Crime Statistics for Ilkley, Bradford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ilkley in August 2024. There were a total of 326 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	108
Anti Social Behaviour	52
Public Order	48
Violent Crime	46
Drugs	20
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Theft	12
Theft From The Person	8
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	326

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ilkley	164
Brunthwaite (3.77 miles)	64
Ben Rhydding (1.24 miles)	51
Peas Acre (3.78 miles)	42
Burley in Wharfedale (3.16 miles)	22
Addingham (2.77 miles)	16
Manor Park (2.48 miles)	13
Askwith (3.16 miles)	12
Langbar (2.78 miles)	10
Burley Woodhead (3.1 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Ilkley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ilkley	46
Brunthwaite	23
Peas Acre	18
Ben Rhydding	12
Addingham	12
Burley in Wharfedale	9
Langbar	8
Manor Park	5
Askwith	4
Burley Woodhead	1

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

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 Ilkley 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 Ilkley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shipley	83
2	Keighley West	81
3	Keighley Central	78
4	Keighley East	70
5	Bingley	61
6	Baildon	61
7	Ilkley	41
8	Craven	31
9	Wharfedale	30
10	Washburn	16
11	Glusburn	13

Which road in Ilkley has the highest level of crime?

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