Crime Statistics for Brookfoot, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brookfoot in September 2024. There were a total of 133 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 Brookfoot, 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	60
Public Order	20
Shoplifting	10
Other Theft	9
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	133

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 Brookfoot. 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 Brookfoot

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birkhouse (1.39 miles)	275
Brighouse (0.62 miles)	169
Bailiff Bridge (0.88 miles)	149
Brookfoot	133
Siddal (1.86 miles)	123
Toothill (1.39 miles)	114
Red Beck (1.09 miles)	103
Cromwell Bottom (0.88 miles)	100
Southowram (1.24 miles)	85
Rastrick (1.24 miles)	75

Where are the most violent places near Brookfoot?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birkhouse	227
Brighouse	69
Bailiff Bridge	65
Toothill	63
Brookfoot	60
Siddal	57
Red Beck	55
Southowram	39
Cromwell Bottom	36
Rastrick	36

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

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 Brookfoot 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 Brookfoot compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brookfoot and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Brookfoot is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Park	86
3	Greenhead	83
4	Town	79
5	Skircoat	76
6	Ashbrow	72
7	Brighouse	71
8	Elland	68
9	Rastrick	66
10	Lindley	63
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Brookfoot has the highest level of crime?

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