Crime Statistics for Lane Head, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lane Head in August 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime3

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 Lane Head. 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 Lane Head

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Jackson Bridge (1.96 miles)34
Shelley Woodhouse (1.76 miles)32
New Mill (1.86 miles)31
Shepley (0.62 miles)9
Fulstone (1.39 miles)7
Meal Hill (1.39 miles)6
Lane Head3
High Flatts (1.39 miles)3
Park Head3
Upper Cumberworth (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 Lane Head?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Jackson Bridge39
Shelley Woodhouse20
New Mill16
Meal Hill6
Shepley3
Fulstone2
High Flatts1
Upper Cumberworth1
Lane Head0
Park Head0

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

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 Lane Head 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 Lane Head compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Newsome87
2Crosland Moor and Netherton75
3Dalton70
4Golcar63
5Holme Valley North57
6Almondbury56
7Mirfield53
8Holme Valley South42
9Denby Dale32
10Kirkburton30
11Penistone West29

Which road in Lane Head has the highest level of crime?

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

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