Crime Statistics for Sheepridge, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sheepridge in October 2024. There were a total of 373 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 Sheepridge, 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	188
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Public Order	28
Shoplifting	27
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Vehicle Crime	19
Burglary	16
Other Crime	13
Drugs	8
Other Theft	7
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	373

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fartown (0.88 miles)	548
Rawthorpe (1.39 miles)	399
Netheroyd Hill (0.62 miles)	351
Birkby (1.39 miles)	262
Sheepridge	186
Holme (1.28 miles)	182
Rastrick (1.76 miles)	155
Toothill (1.39 miles)	110
Colne Bridge (1.39 miles)	84
Upper Heaton (1.86 miles)	33

Where are the most violent places near Sheepridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fartown	227
Sheepridge	188
Rawthorpe	173
Netheroyd Hill	162
Birkby	110
Holme	90
Rastrick	74
Toothill	46
Colne Bridge	34
Upper Heaton	11

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

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 Sheepridge 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 Sheepridge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sheepridge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sheepridge is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Ashbrow	72
4	Brighouse	71
5	Dalton	70
6	Elland	68
7	Rastrick	66
8	Golcar	63
9	Lindley	63
10	Almondbury	56
11	Mirfield	53

Which road in Sheepridge has the highest level of crime?

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