Crime Statistics for Highburton, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highburton in October 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Highburton, 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	7
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Drugs	2
Other Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	21

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fenay Bridge (1.39 miles)	208
Roydhouse (1.39 miles)	36
Causeway Foot (0.62 miles)	29
Rowley Hill (0.62 miles)	26
High Green (0.62 miles)	26
Highburton	21
Little Lepton (0.88 miles)	21
Shelley (1.39 miles)	15
Thunder Bridge (1.39 miles)	5
Green Side (1.75 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Highburton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fenay Bridge	82
Roydhouse	28
Causeway Foot	11
Rowley Hill	10
High Green	10
Little Lepton	8
Shelley	8
Highburton	7
Thunder Bridge	2
Green Side	1

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

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 Highburton 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 Highburton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Highburton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Highburton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Newsome.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
4	Dalton	70
5	Golcar	63
6	Holme Valley North	57
7	Almondbury	56
8	Mirfield	53
9	Holme Valley South	42
10	Denby Dale	32
11	Kirkburton	30

Which road in Highburton has the highest level of crime?

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