Crime Statistics for Little Thorpe, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Thorpe in August 2024. There were a total of 16 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime4
Anti Social Behaviour4
Public Order3
Other Theft2
Drugs1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Violent Crime1
All Crime16

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Rawfolds (1.39 miles)166
Liversedge (1.39 miles)158
Littletown (1.75 miles)156
Colne Bridge (1.39 miles)87
Moor Top (0.88 miles)80
Hartshead Moor Side (1.39 miles)70
Battyeford (1.39 miles)68
Upper Heaton (1.86 miles)48
Hartshead16
Little Thorpe16

3.97%
of Brighouse residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Littletown92
Rawfolds71
Liversedge39
Colne Bridge39
Battyeford30
Hartshead Moor Side25
Moor Top23
Upper Heaton21
Hartshead1
Little Thorpe1

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.

#WardScore
1Dewsbury West89
2Batley West88
3Greenhead83
4Heckmondwike81
5Cleckheaton73
6Ashbrow72
7Brighouse71
8Liversedge and Gomersal69
9Rastrick66
10Hipperholme and Lightcliffe57
11Mirfield53

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.

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