Crime Statistics for Oakworth, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oakworth in September 2024. There were a total of 63 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Oakworth, 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	20
Drugs	11
Shoplifting	9
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Theft	6
Burglary	5
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Public Order	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	63

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 Oakworth. 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 Oakworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bogthorn (0.88 miles)	194
Damems (0.88 miles)	174
Cackleshaw	114
Harewood Hill	114
Oakworth	63
Cross Roads (0.88 miles)	43
Barcroft (0.88 miles)	43
Hole (1.24 miles)	39
Lane End (0.62 miles)	36
Newsholme (0.88 miles)	18

Where are the most violent places near Oakworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bogthorn	138
Damems	120
Harewood Hill	68
Cackleshaw	45
Oakworth	20
Cross Roads	14
Barcroft	14
Lane End	12
Hole	8
Newsholme	6

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

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 Oakworth 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 Oakworth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Oakworth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Oakworth is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Illingworth and Mixenden	86
2	Keighley West	81
3	Keighley Central	78
4	Keighley East	70
5	Bingley Rural	69
6	Worth Valley	67
7	Bingley	61
8	Craven	31
9	Sutton-in-Craven	21
10	Cowling	20
11	Glusburn	13

Which road in Oakworth has the highest level of crime?

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