Crime Statistics for Staincliffe, Batley, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Staincliffe in August 2024. There were a total of 517 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 Staincliffe, 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 Crime232
Public Order78
Criminal Damage Arson37
Other Theft36
Shoplifting35
Anti Social Behaviour34
Vehicle Crime20
Other Crime19
Burglary12
Robbery6
Drugs6
Theft From The Person1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime517

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Batley (0.88 miles)648
Carlinghow (0.62 miles)444
Batley Carr442
Heckmondwike (1.24 miles)415
Hanging Heaton (1.24 miles)391
Staincliffe351
Upper Batley (1.39 miles)347
Healey (0.88 miles)335
Boothroyd (1.24 miles)248
Lower Soothill (1.39 miles)223

16.33%
of Batley West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Staincliffe?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Batley286
Boothroyd249
Staincliffe232
Carlinghow202
Batley Carr200
Upper Batley155
Heckmondwike146
Hanging Heaton135
Healey130
Lower Soothill77

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

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 Staincliffe 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 Staincliffe compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Dewsbury West89
2Batley West88
3Dewsbury East81
4Heckmondwike81
5Batley East76
6Birstall and Birkenshaw73
7Cleckheaton73
8Liversedge and Gomersal69
9Morley South65
10Ossett63
11Dewsbury South63

Which road in Staincliffe has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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