Crime Statistics for New Fryston, Wakefield, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Fryston in September 2024. There were a total of 133 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Fryston, 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	62
Shoplifting	19
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	9
Other Theft	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Drugs	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	133

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 New Fryston. 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 New Fryston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Red Hill (1.39 miles)	326
Airedale (1.24 miles)	191
Water Fryston (0.88 miles)	166
New Fryston	133
Allerton Bywater (1.86 miles)	110
Byram (2.24 miles)	79
Brotherton (2.24 miles)	79
Aire (0.57 miles)	72
Fairburn (1.24 miles)	27
Ledston (1.39 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near New Fryston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Red Hill	105
Airedale	102
Water Fryston	72
New Fryston	62
Allerton Bywater	40
Aire	37
Byram	32
Brotherton	32
Fairburn	13
Ledston	8

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

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 New Fryston 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 New Fryston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Fryston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Fryston is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Knottingley	90
2	Castleford Central and Glasshoughton	83
3	Pontefract South	76
4	Pontefract North	75
5	Airedale and Ferry Fryston	73
6	Altofts and Whitwood	63
7	Kippax & Methley	50
8	Byram & Brotherton	38
9	Monk Fryston	27
10	Sherburn in Elmet	25
11	South Milford	21

Which road in New Fryston has the highest level of crime?

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