Crime Statistics for Earlsheaton, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Earlsheaton in August 2024. There were a total of 611 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 Earlsheaton, 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	266
Public Order	64
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Other Theft	38
Burglary	37
Shoplifting	36
Vehicle Crime	31
Other Crime	20
Drugs	18
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	6
Theft From The Person	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	611

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 Earlsheaton. 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 Earlsheaton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Earlsheaton	514
Batley Carr (1.75 miles)	442
Hanging Heaton (1.24 miles)	391
Staincliffe (1.75 miles)	351
Gawthorpe (1.39 miles)	347
Chickenley (0.62 miles)	269
Boothroyd (1.24 miles)	248
Calder and Hebble Navigation (0.76 miles)	216
Chidswell (1.39 miles)	155
Combs (1.39 miles)	101

Where are the most violent places near Earlsheaton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Earlsheaton	266
Boothroyd	249
Staincliffe	232
Calder and Hebble Navigation	216
Batley Carr	200
Gawthorpe	160
Hanging Heaton	135
Chickenley	126
Chidswell	74
Combs	54

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

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 Earlsheaton 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 Earlsheaton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Earlsheaton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Earlsheaton is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Dewsbury East	81
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Batley East	76
6	Morley South	65
7	Ossett	63
8	Dewsbury South	63
9	Mirfield	53
10	Horbury and South Ossett	51
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Earlsheaton has the highest level of crime?

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