Crime Statistics for Little Thorpe, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Thorpe in October 2024. There were a total of 12 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Thorpe, 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	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	12

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 Little Thorpe. 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 Little Thorpe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Littletown (1.75 miles)	406
Rawfolds (1.39 miles)	181
Liversedge (1.39 miles)	163
Hartshead Moor Side (1.39 miles)	125
Moor Top (0.88 miles)	87
Colne Bridge (1.39 miles)	84
Battyeford (1.39 miles)	63
Upper Heaton (1.86 miles)	33
Hartshead	12
Little Thorpe	12

Where are the most violent places near Little Thorpe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Littletown	264
Rawfolds	72
Moor Top	61
Hartshead Moor Side	60
Liversedge	49
Colne Bridge	34
Battyeford	32
Upper Heaton	11
Hartshead	3
Little Thorpe	3

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

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 Little Thorpe 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 Little Thorpe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Thorpe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Thorpe is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Greenhead	83
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Cleckheaton	73
6	Ashbrow	72
7	Brighouse	71
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Rastrick	66
10	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57
11	Mirfield	53

Which road in Little Thorpe has the highest level of crime?

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