Crime Statistics for Shibden Head, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shibden Head in August 2024. There were a total of 182 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shibden Head, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime87
Anti Social Behaviour34
Public Order18
Criminal Damage Arson11
Burglary10
Vehicle Crime10
Other Theft6
Other Crime4
Drugs2
All Crime182

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 Shibden Head. 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 Shibden Head

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Holmfield (0.88 miles)510
Illingworth (1.39 miles)279
Dam Head (1.39 miles)212
Old Dolphin (1.39 miles)200
Holdsworth (0.62 miles)185
Shibden Head172
Ambler Thorn156
Catherine Slack (0.62 miles)145
Stone Chair (1.75 miles)30
Raggalds (1.39 miles)29

3.53%
of Northowram and Shelf residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Shibden Head?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Holmfield227
Illingworth118
Old Dolphin107
Shibden Head87
Ambler Thorn79
Dam Head75
Holdsworth74
Catherine Slack60
Raggalds14
Stone Chair3

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

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 Shibden Head 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 Shibden Head compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ovenden95
2Clayton and Fairweather Green91
3Thornton and Allerton87
4Illingworth and Mixenden86
5Park86
6Warley81
7Town79
8Queensbury78
9Skircoat76
10Northowram and Shelf66
11Luddendenfoot64

Which road in Shibden Head has the highest level of crime?

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

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