Crime Statistics for Boothtown, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boothtown in October 2024. There were a total of 802 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Boothtown, 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	355
Public Order	73
Criminal Damage Arson	70
Other Theft	63
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Shoplifting	45
Vehicle Crime	36
Drugs	33
Other Crime	26
Burglary	18
Possession Of Weapons	11
Theft From The Person	10
Bicycle Theft	4
Robbery	4
All Crime	802

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stoney Royd (1.39 miles)	994
Boothtown	716
Claremount (0.88 miles)	622
Halifax (0.88 miles)	622
Bank Top (1.75 miles)	526
Pellon (0.88 miles)	403
Illingworth (1.39 miles)	309
Holmfield (1.24 miles)	295
Catherine Slack (1.39 miles)	174
Dam Head (1.39 miles)	114

Where are the most violent places near Boothtown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stoney Royd	816
Boothtown	355
Claremount	251
Halifax	251
Bank Top	220
Pellon	192
Illingworth	148
Holmfield	145
Catherine Slack	119
Dam Head	42

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

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 Boothtown 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 Boothtown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ovenden	95
2	Clayton and Fairweather Green	91
3	Illingworth and Mixenden	86
4	Park	86
5	Warley	81
6	Town	79
7	Queensbury	78
8	Skircoat	76
9	Sowerby Bridge	72
10	Northowram and Shelf	66
11	Luddendenfoot	64

Which road in Boothtown has the highest level of crime?

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