Crime Statistics for Southowram, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southowram in September 2024. There were a total of 85 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 Southowram, 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	39
Public Order	9
Other Theft	8
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Vehicle Crime	5
Drugs	5
Other Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	85

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 Southowram. 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 Southowram

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halifax (1.75 miles)	673
Stoney Royd (1.39 miles)	582
Bank Top (0.88 miles)	295
Brookfoot (1.24 miles)	133
Siddal (0.62 miles)	123
Exley (1.39 miles)	115
Red Beck (1.45 miles)	103
Cromwell Bottom (0.88 miles)	100
Southowram	85
Rastrick (1.75 miles)	75

Where are the most violent places near Southowram?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stoney Royd	257
Halifax	248
Bank Top	231
Exley	61
Brookfoot	60
Siddal	57
Red Beck	55
Southowram	39
Cromwell Bottom	36
Rastrick	36

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

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 Southowram 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 Southowram compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Park	86
2	Greenhead	83
3	Warley	81
4	Town	79
5	Skircoat	76
6	Ashbrow	72
7	Sowerby Bridge	72
8	Elland	68
9	Rastrick	66
10	Lindley	63
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Southowram has the highest level of crime?

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