Crime Statistics for Park Mill, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Park Mill in September 2024. There were a total of 20 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Park Mill, 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	10
Drugs	4
Other Theft	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Shoplifting	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	20

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 Park Mill. 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 Park Mill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Park Gate (1.24 miles)	21
Park Mill	20
Lower Cumberworth (2.24 miles)	12
Shelley Woodhouse (2.55 miles)	11
Roydhouse (2.56 miles)	9
Moor Head (1.96 miles)	8
Emley (1.39 miles)	5
Crawshaw (1.75 miles)	4
Haigh (2.55 miles)	4
High Hoyland (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Park Mill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park Gate	11
Park Mill	10
Lower Cumberworth	9
Shelley Woodhouse	5
Moor Head	5
Crawshaw	5
Roydhouse	4
Emley	3
Haigh	1
High Hoyland	1

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

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 Park Mill 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 Park Mill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ossett	63
2	Dewsbury South	63
3	Almondbury	56
4	Darton East	55
5	Horbury and South Ossett	51
6	Wakefield Rural	49
7	Dodworth	45
8	Darton West	43
9	Holme Valley South	42
10	Denby Dale	32
11	Kirkburton	30

Which road in Park Mill has the highest level of crime?

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