Crime Statistics for Littletown, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

Is Littletown rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 225 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Littletown, 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 Crime97
Shoplifting24
Other Theft22
Anti Social Behaviour22
Vehicle Crime16
Public Order16
Criminal Damage Arson7
Burglary7
Other Crime6
Robbery4
Drugs4
All Crime225

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Heckmondwike (0.88 miles)431
Healey (1.24 miles)342
Littletown225
Birstall Smithies (1.39 miles)225
Liversedge (0.62 miles)180
Gomersal (1.24 miles)168
Rawfolds (0.62 miles)155
Drub (1.39 miles)147
Spen (0.88 miles)143
Hartshead (1.75 miles)28

5.13%
of Cleckheaton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Littletown?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Heckmondwike212
Healey148
Spen131
Gomersal109
Birstall Smithies106
Littletown97
Rawfolds85
Drub74
Liversedge73
Hartshead6

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

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 Littletown 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 Littletown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Littletown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Littletown is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Tong95
2Dewsbury West89
3Batley West88
4Heckmondwike81
5Birstall and Birkenshaw73
6Cleckheaton73
7Brighouse71
8Liversedge and Gomersal69
9Rastrick66
10Morley North64
11Hipperholme and Lightcliffe57

Which road in Littletown has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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