Crime Statistics for Upper Heaton, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Upper Heaton in September 2024. There were a total of 31 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 Upper Heaton, 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	16
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Public Order	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
Drugs	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	31

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 Upper Heaton. 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 Upper Heaton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rawthorpe (1.75 miles)	352
Sheepridge (1.86 miles)	314
Holme (0.84 miles)	210
Cockley Hill (1.24 miles)	188
Colne Bridge (0.88 miles)	87
Mirfield (1.24 miles)	78
Moor Top (1.39 miles)	75
Battyeford (0.88 miles)	68
Lower Hopton (0.62 miles)	57
Upper Heaton	31

Where are the most violent places near Upper Heaton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rawthorpe	154
Sheepridge	152
Holme	138
Cockley Hill	104
Mirfield	88
Colne Bridge	39
Moor Top	31
Lower Hopton	31
Battyeford	30
Upper Heaton	16

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

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 Upper Heaton 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 Upper Heaton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Upper Heaton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Upper Heaton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Newsome.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
4	Ashbrow	72
5	Brighouse	71
6	Dalton	70
7	Rastrick	66
8	Lindley	63
9	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57
10	Almondbury	56
11	Mirfield	53

Which road in Upper Heaton has the highest level of crime?

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