Crime Statistics for Lower Houses, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Houses in September 2024. There were a total of 320 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Houses, 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	168
Public Order	37
Other Theft	22
Other Crime	17
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Shoplifting	16
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Vehicle Crime	9
Drugs	8
Burglary	6
Theft From The Person	5
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	320

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moldgreen (0.62 miles)	540
Greenside (1.39 miles)	340
Lower Houses	293
Dalton (0.88 miles)	284
Hall Bower (0.88 miles)	261
Lockwood (1.24 miles)	246
Tandem (1.39 miles)	191
Newsome (0.88 miles)	146
Almondbury (0.62 miles)	140
Berry Brow (1.39 miles)	137

Where are the most violent places near Lower Houses?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Moldgreen	200
Lockwood	183
Lower Houses	168
Greenside	164
Dalton	135
Hall Bower	132
Tandem	87
Berry Brow	81
Newsome	77
Almondbury	57

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

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 Lower Houses 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 Lower Houses compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Houses and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Houses is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
4	Ashbrow	72
5	Dalton	70
6	Golcar	63
7	Lindley	63
8	Holme Valley North	57
9	Almondbury	56
10	Mirfield	53
11	Kirkburton	30

Which road in Lower Houses has the highest level of crime?

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