Crime Statistics for Copley Hill, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Copley Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 134 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Copley 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime52
Criminal Damage Arson19
Vehicle Crime16
Public Order14
Burglary13
Anti Social Behaviour7
Other Theft5
Other Crime3
Shoplifting2
Drugs1
Bicycle Theft1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime134

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 Copley 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 Copley Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Carlinghow (1.24 miles)444
Upper Batley (0.88 miles)347
Birstall Smithies (0.88 miles)255
Oakwell (1.39 miles)213
Bruntcliffe (1.39 miles)177
Gildersome Street (1.39 miles)172
Birstall (0.62 miles)149
Copley Hill134
Birkenshaw Bottoms (1.39 miles)90
Adwalton (1.24 miles)80

4.39%
of Birstall and Birkenshaw residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Copley Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Carlinghow202
Upper Batley155
Birstall Smithies121
Oakwell112
Gildersome Street80
Birstall65
Copley Hill52
Bruntcliffe48
Birkenshaw Bottoms41
Adwalton31

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Copley 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 Copley 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 Copley Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Tong95
2Dewsbury West89
3Batley West88
4Dewsbury East81
5Heckmondwike81
6Batley East76
7Birstall and Birkenshaw73
8Cleckheaton73
9Liversedge and Gomersal69
10Morley South65
11Morley North64

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

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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