Crime Statistics for Beggarington Hill, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beggarington Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 112 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 Beggarington Hill, 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	47
Public Order	18
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Crime	6
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Other Theft	4
All Crime	112

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 Beggarington Hill. 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 Beggarington Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hanging Heaton (1.39 miles)	680
Lower Soothill (1.24 miles)	528
Gawthorpe (1.24 miles)	278
Chidswell (0.88 miles)	155
Topcliffe (1.24 miles)	92
Beggarington Hill	83
Upper Green (0.62 miles)	76
Balna Beck (0.75 miles)	48
Haigh Moor (0.62 miles)	26
Jaw Hill (1.39 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Beggarington Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Soothill	448
Hanging Heaton	295
Gawthorpe	157
Chidswell	74
Beggarington Hill	47
Topcliffe	33
Upper Green	30
Balna Beck	17
Haigh Moor	12
Jaw Hill	3

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

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 Beggarington Hill 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 Beggarington Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Beggarington Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Beggarington Hill is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Dewsbury East	81
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Batley East	76
6	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
7	Morley South	65
8	Ossett	63
9	Dewsbury South	63
10	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Beggarington Hill has the highest level of crime?

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