Crime Statistics for Ravensthorpe, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

Is Ravensthorpe rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 99 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ravensthorpe, 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 Crime51
Anti Social Behaviour11
Other Theft10
Vehicle Crime6
Criminal Damage Arson5
Burglary4
Public Order3
Shoplifting3
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery2
Theft From The Person1
Other Crime1
All Crime99

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 Ravensthorpe. 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 Ravensthorpe

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Boothroyd (0.88 miles)417
Earlsheaton (1.96 miles)301
Combs (1.39 miles)215
Northorpe (0.62 miles)156
Moor Top (1.96 miles)128
Lower Hopton (1.96 miles)107
Ravensthorpe99
Battyeford (1.86 miles)75
Mirfield (1.39 miles)67
Fox Royd (1.39 miles)37

20.09%
of Dewsbury South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ravensthorpe?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Boothroyd218
Earlsheaton130
Combs123
Moor Top94
Northorpe82
Lower Hopton59
Ravensthorpe51
Battyeford40
Mirfield39
Fox Royd16

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

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 Ravensthorpe 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 Ravensthorpe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ravensthorpe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ravensthorpe is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Dewsbury West89
2Batley West88
3Dewsbury East81
4Heckmondwike81
5Batley East76
6Cleckheaton73
7Brighouse71
8Ossett63
9Dewsbury South63
10Almondbury56
11Mirfield53

Which road in Ravensthorpe has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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