Crime Statistics for Holmfield, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holmfield in August 2024. There were a total of 553 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 Holmfield, 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	227
Public Order	60
Anti Social Behaviour	58
Shoplifting	54
Other Theft	36
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Vehicle Crime	24
Other Crime	20
Burglary	18
Drugs	14
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	553

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 Holmfield. 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 Holmfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Boothtown (1.24 miles)	667
Holmfield	510
Illingworth (0.62 miles)	279
Dam Head (1.39 miles)	212
Holdsworth (0.62 miles)	185
Mixenden (1.24 miles)	183
Shibden Head (0.88 miles)	172
Brookhouse (1.39 miles)	160
Ambler Thorn (0.88 miles)	156
Catherine Slack (0.62 miles)	145

Where are the most violent places near Holmfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Boothtown	383
Holmfield	227
Illingworth	118
Shibden Head	87
Ambler Thorn	79
Dam Head	75
Holdsworth	74
Mixenden	71
Brookhouse	65
Catherine Slack	60

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

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 Holmfield 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 Holmfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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 Holmfield has the highest level of crime?

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