Crime Statistics for Holmfirth, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holmfirth in August 2024. There were a total of 125 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 Holmfirth, 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 Crime59
Public Order24
Criminal Damage Arson12
Shoplifting10
Anti Social Behaviour8
Theft From The Person4
Possession Of Weapons2
Vehicle Crime2
Other Theft2
Burglary2
All Crime125

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 Holmfirth. 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 Holmfirth

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Holmfirth117
Netherthong (0.88 miles)98
Under Bank (0.62 miles)62
Cartworth (0.62 miles)62
Totties (0.62 miles)60
New Mill (1.24 miles)31
Hogley Green (1.39 miles)26
Burnlee (1.39 miles)26
Washpit (1.24 miles)3
Longley (1.24 miles)3

3.4%
of Holme Valley South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Holmfirth?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Netherthong96
Holmfirth59
Hogley Green35
Under Bank34
Cartworth34
Totties29
Burnlee19
New Mill16
Washpit0
Longley0

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

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 Holmfirth 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 Holmfirth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Holmfirth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Holmfirth is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Newsome87
2Greenhead83
3Crosland Moor and Netherton75
4Dalton70
5Golcar63
6Lindley63
7Holme Valley North57
8Almondbury56
9Holme Valley South42
10Kirkburton30
11Penistone West29

Which road in Holmfirth has the highest level of crime?

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

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