Crime Statistics for Warley Town, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Warley Town in August 2024. There were a total of 70 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 Warley Town, 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	30
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Public Order	9
Other Theft	5
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Crime	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	70

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 Warley Town. 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 Warley Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Boothtown (1.96 miles)	667
Pellon (1.24 miles)	390
Friendly (0.62 miles)	170
Sowerby Bridge (1.39 miles)	102
Warley Town	70
Sowerby (1.39 miles)	54
Moor End (1.86 miles)	47
Boulder Clough (1.75 miles)	31
Brearley (1.96 miles)	22
Booth (1.39 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Warley Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Boothtown	383
Pellon	179
Friendly	106
Moor End	53
Sowerby Bridge	42
Warley Town	30
Sowerby	26
Boulder Clough	16
Brearley	9
Booth	6

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

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 Warley Town 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 Warley Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Warley Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Warley Town is ranked #8.

#	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 Warley Town has the highest level of crime?

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