Crime Statistics for Newsome, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newsome in September 2024. There were a total of 146 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Newsome, 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 Crime77
Criminal Damage Arson15
Public Order14
Other Theft9
Anti Social Behaviour9
Other Crime7
Drugs5
Vehicle Crime4
Possession Of Weapons2
Shoplifting2
Burglary2
All Crime146

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 Newsome. 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 Newsome

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Moldgreen (1.39 miles)540
Lower Houses (0.88 miles)293
Hall Bower261
Lockwood (0.88 miles)246
Newsome146
Almondbury (1.39 miles)140
Berry Brow (0.62 miles)137
Armitage Bridge (0.88 miles)75
Netherton (1.39 miles)18
Farnley Bank (1.39 miles)4

23.38%
of Crosland Moor and Netherton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Newsome?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Moldgreen200
Lockwood183
Lower Houses168
Hall Bower132
Berry Brow81
Newsome77
Almondbury57
Armitage Bridge39
Netherton9
Farnley Bank1

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

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 Newsome 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 Newsome compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Newsome87
2Greenhead83
3Crosland Moor and Netherton75
4Ashbrow72
5Dalton70
6Golcar63
7Lindley63
8Holme Valley North57
9Almondbury56
10Holme Valley South42
11Kirkburton30

Which road in Newsome has the highest level of crime?

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

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