Crime Statistics for Helme, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Helme in August 2024. There were a total of 68 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 Helme, 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	41
Public Order	9
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	3
Other Theft	3
Shoplifting	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	1
Other Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	68

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 Helme. 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 Helme

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Crosland Hill (2.24 miles)	119
Crosland Edge (0.62 miles)	100
Helme	63
Linthwaite (1.96 miles)	55
Netherton (2.24 miles)	32
Blackmoorfoot (1.24 miles)	32
Clough (1.24 miles)	32
South Crosland (1.39 miles)	26
Honley Moor (2.48 miles)	25
Holt Head (1.39 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Helme?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crosland Hill	63
Crosland Edge	48
Helme	41
Linthwaite	26
South Crosland	17
Netherton	15
Blackmoorfoot	14
Clough	14
Honley Moor	12
Holt Head	1

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

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 Helme 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 Helme compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Helme and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Helme is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
3	Dalton	70
4	Golcar	63
5	Lindley	63
6	Holme Valley North	57
7	Greetland and Stainland	55
8	Colne Valley	55
9	Ryburn	54
10	Holme Valley South	42
11	Kirkburton	30

Which road in Helme has the highest level of crime?

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