Crime Statistics for Birkenshaw, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birkenshaw in September 2024. There were a total of 58 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Birkenshaw, 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	19
Shoplifting	12
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	6
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Crime	4
Other Theft	2
Drugs	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	58

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 Birkenshaw. 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 Birkenshaw

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tong Street (1.39 miles)	367
Bierley (1.75 miles)	304
Gomersal (1.24 miles)	219
Moorside (1.24 miles)	219
Oakwell (0.88 miles)	213
Drub (1.39 miles)	155
Toftshaw (1.39 miles)	133
Drighlington (1.24 miles)	122
Birkenshaw Bottoms (0.88 miles)	90
Birkenshaw	58

Where are the most violent places near Birkenshaw?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tong Street	152
Bierley	136
Moorside	132
Gomersal	113
Oakwell	112
Drighlington	70
Drub	69
Toftshaw	56
Birkenshaw Bottoms	41
Birkenshaw	19

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

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 Birkenshaw 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 Birkenshaw compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Birkenshaw and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Birkenshaw is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Wibsey	93
3	Royds	92
4	Wyke	88
5	Heckmondwike	81
6	Pudsey	77
7	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
8	Cleckheaton	73
9	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
10	Morley North	64
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Birkenshaw has the highest level of crime?

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