Crime Statistics for Pellon, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pellon in August 2024. There were a total of 390 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 Pellon, 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	179
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Public Order	40
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Vehicle Crime	19
Shoplifting	18
Other Theft	13
Drugs	13
Burglary	9
Other Crime	6
Bicycle Theft	5
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	390

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 Pellon. 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 Pellon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Claremount (1.24 miles)	766
Boothtown (0.88 miles)	667
Halifax (1.24 miles)	549
Stoney Royd (1.39 miles)	459
Pellon	390
Bank Top (1.96 miles)	295
Illingworth (1.86 miles)	279
Friendly (1.39 miles)	170
Sowerby Bridge (1.39 miles)	102
Warley Town (1.24 miles)	70

Where are the most violent places near Pellon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halifax	415
Boothtown	383
Stoney Royd	313
Claremount	293
Bank Top	231
Pellon	179
Illingworth	118
Friendly	106
Sowerby Bridge	42
Warley Town	30

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

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 Pellon 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 Pellon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pellon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pellon is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ovenden	95
2	Illingworth and Mixenden	86
3	Park	86
4	Warley	81
5	Town	79
6	Queensbury	78
7	Skircoat	76
8	Sowerby Bridge	72
9	Northowram and Shelf	66
10	Luddendenfoot	64
11	Calder	53

Which road in Pellon has the highest level of crime?

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