Crime Statistics for Carr Gate, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Carr Gate in August 2024. There were a total of 111 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 Carr Gate, 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	47
Public Order	23
Shoplifting	17
Burglary	6
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Other Theft	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	111

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 Carr Gate. 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 Carr Gate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newton Hill (1.75 miles)	633
The Fall (0.88 miles)	209
Lofthouse (1.39 miles)	171
Lofthouse Gate (1.24 miles)	131
Carr Gate	85
Lawns	72
Haigh Moor (1.86 miles)	49
Balna Beck (1.74 miles)	48
Beck Bottom (0.88 miles)	24
Jaw Hill (1.39 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Carr Gate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newton Hill	237
Lofthouse	128
The Fall	111
Lofthouse Gate	52
Carr Gate	47
Lawns	28
Haigh Moor	20
Balna Beck	17
Beck Bottom	15
Jaw Hill	2

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

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 Carr Gate 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 Carr Gate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury East	81
2	Wakefield West	80
3	Wakefield East	80
4	Wakefield North	78
5	Batley East	76
6	Wakefield South	67
7	Rothwell	66
8	Morley South	65
9	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62
10	Stanley and Outwood East	50
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Carr Gate has the highest level of crime?

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