Crime Statistics for Buttershaw, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Buttershaw in October 2024. There were a total of 243 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 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	98
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Vehicle Crime	26
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Crime	12
Other Theft	12
Burglary	9
Shoplifting	8
Possession Of Weapons	3
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	243

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Horton (1.75 miles)	665
Great Horton (1.39 miles)	579
Odsal (1.24 miles)	315
Buttershaw	243
New Road Side (1.75 miles)	168
Old Dolphin (1.39 miles)	81
Shelf (0.88 miles)	51
Norwood Green (1.86 miles)	45
Coley (1.39 miles)	43
Stone Chair (1.75 miles)	34

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Horton	275
Great Horton	262
Odsal	141
Buttershaw	98
New Road Side	72
Old Dolphin	33
Shelf	22
Coley	18
Stone Chair	17
Norwood Green	12

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Wibsey	93
2	Little Horton	92
3	Royds	92
4	Clayton and Fairweather Green	91
5	Great Horton	89
6	Wyke	88
7	Thornton and Allerton	87
8	Manningham	86
9	Town	79
10	Queensbury	78
11	Northowram and Shelf	66

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.