Crime Statistics for Shelf, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shelf in September 2024. There were a total of 42 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shelf, 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	12
Other Theft	6
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	3
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	42

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 Shelf. 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 Shelf

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Odsal (1.96 miles)	598
Buttershaw (0.88 miles)	235
Old Dolphin (1.39 miles)	159
Catherine Slack (1.86 miles)	130
Dam Head (1.39 miles)	104
Coley (0.62 miles)	77
Norwood Green (1.39 miles)	61
Northowram (1.39 miles)	46
Shelf	42
Stone Chair (0.88 miles)	31

Where are the most violent places near Shelf?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Odsal	261
Buttershaw	96
Old Dolphin	79
Catherine Slack	62
Dam Head	44
Coley	34
Norwood Green	33
Northowram	13
Shelf	12
Stone Chair	12

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

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 Shelf 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 Shelf compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ovenden	95
2	Wibsey	93
3	Royds	92
4	Clayton and Fairweather Green	91
5	Great Horton	89
6	Wyke	88
7	Thornton and Allerton	87
8	Park	86
9	Town	79
10	Queensbury	78
11	Northowram and Shelf	66

Which road in Shelf has the highest level of crime?

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