Crime Statistics for Longwood, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

Is Longwood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 107 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Longwood, 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 Crime61
Burglary8
Other Theft8
Criminal Damage Arson6
Other Crime5
Public Order5
Drugs3
Vehicle Crime3
Anti Social Behaviour3
Shoplifting3
Possession Of Weapons1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime107

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 Longwood. 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 Longwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Paddock (1.24 miles)259
Oakes (0.88 miles)211
Milnsbridge (0.88 miles)151
Crosland Moor (0.88 miles)127
Salendine Nook (0.62 miles)118
Longwood107
Longwood Edge (0.62 miles)100
Town End (0.88 miles)58
Linthwaite (1.24 miles)52
Nettleton Hill (0.88 miles)44

6.62%
of Golcar residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Longwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Paddock127
Milnsbridge124
Oakes97
Longwood Edge79
Crosland Moor71
Longwood61
Salendine Nook58
Linthwaite32
Town End27
Nettleton Hill22

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

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 Longwood 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 Longwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Newsome87
2Greenhead83
3Crosland Moor and Netherton75
4Ashbrow72
5Dalton70
6Elland68
7Golcar63
8Lindley63
9Greetland and Stainland55
10Colne Valley55
11Ryburn54

Which road in Longwood has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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