Crime Statistics for Town Head, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Town Head in August 2024. There were a total of 57 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 Town 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 Crime18
Shoplifting10
Anti Social Behaviour5
Public Order5
Vehicle Crime4
Criminal Damage Arson4
Burglary3
Other Theft3
Drugs3
Other Crime1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime57

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 Town 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 Town Head

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Beechcliffe (2.56 miles)475
Kildwick (1.96 miles)97
Brunthwaite (0.62 miles)64
Junction (1.96 miles)60
Silsden57
Town Head57
Farnhill (2.48 miles)31
Cringles (1.24 miles)27
Addingham (2.63 miles)16
Low Bradley (2.77 miles)6

4.6%
of Craven residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Town Head?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Beechcliffe203
Kildwick36
Brunthwaite23
Junction21
Silsden18
Town Head18
Addingham12
Farnhill10
Cringles8
Low Bradley3

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Town 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 Town 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 Town Head compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Town Head and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Town Head is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Keighley West81
2Keighley Central78
3Skipton South53
4Ilkley41
5Craven31
6Skipton North25
7Sutton-in-Craven21
8Cowling20
9Glusburn13
10Aire Valley with Lothersdale7
11Skipton East5

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

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

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