Crime Statistics for Gawthorpe, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2025

Is Gawthorpe rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 35 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	13
Violent Crime	7
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Other Theft	2
Burglary	2
Other Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	35

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Gawthorpe. 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 Gawthorpe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dalton (1.86 miles)	255
Greenside (1.24 miles)	146
Tandem (1.24 miles)	146
Fenay Bridge (0.88 miles)	115
Cockley Hill (0.88 miles)	100
Gawthorpe	35
High Green (1.24 miles)	31
Little Lepton (1.39 miles)	29
Rowley Hill (1.24 miles)	21
Grange Moor (1.86 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Gawthorpe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dalton	195
Greenside	77
Tandem	66
Cockley Hill	53
Fenay Bridge	45
High Green	22
Little Lepton	18
Rowley Hill	10
Gawthorpe	7
Grange Moor	4

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

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 Gawthorpe 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 Gawthorpe compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
4	Ashbrow	72
5	Brighouse	71
6	Dalton	70
7	Holme Valley North	57
8	Almondbury	56
9	Mirfield	53
10	Holme Valley South	42
11	Kirkburton	30

Which road in Gawthorpe has the highest level of crime?

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