Crime Statistics for Buttershaw, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Buttershaw in September 2024. There were a total of 235 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Buttershaw, 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 Crime96
Vehicle Crime31
Anti Social Behaviour25
Public Order18
Criminal Damage Arson17
Other Theft15
Burglary10
Shoplifting9
Drugs7
Robbery2
Possession Of Weapons2
Other Crime2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime235

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 Buttershaw. 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 Buttershaw

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Little Horton (1.75 miles)1122
Great Horton (1.39 miles)665
Odsal (1.24 miles)347
Buttershaw235
Old Dolphin (1.39 miles)200
New Road Side (1.75 miles)145
Coley (1.39 miles)77
Norwood Green (1.86 miles)56
Shelf (0.88 miles)33
Stone Chair (1.75 miles)30

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 Buttershaw?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Little Horton528
Great Horton277
Odsal145
Old Dolphin107
Buttershaw96
New Road Side74
Coley34
Norwood Green17
Shelf8
Stone Chair3

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

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 Buttershaw 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 Buttershaw compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Buttershaw and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Buttershaw have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Wibsey.

#WardScore
1Wibsey93
2Little Horton92
3Royds92
4Clayton and Fairweather Green91
5Great Horton89
6Wyke88
7Thornton and Allerton87
8Manningham86
9Town79
10Queensbury78
11Northowram and Shelf66

Which road in Buttershaw has the highest level of crime?

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

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