Crime Statistics for Featherstone, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Featherstone in September 2024. There were a total of 129 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 Featherstone, 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	63
Shoplifting	20
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Other Crime	6
Other Theft	4
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	129

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 Featherstone. 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 Featherstone

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pontefract (1.96 miles)	268
Monkhill (2.24 miles)	257
Loscoe (2.24 miles)	123
Featherstone	116
Strawberry Hill (0.62 miles)	116
Ackton (0.88 miles)	89
Low Ackworth (2.24 miles)	80
High Ackworth (2.24 miles)	72
Streethouse (1.86 miles)	52
Hessle (1.96 miles)	38

Where are the most violent places near Featherstone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Monkhill	186
Pontefract	110
Low Ackworth	64
Featherstone	63
Strawberry Hill	53
Loscoe	51
Ackton	34
High Ackworth	30
Streethouse	27
Hessle	15

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

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 Featherstone 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 Featherstone compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Knottingley	90
2	Castleford Central and Glasshoughton	83
3	Hemsworth	79
4	Pontefract South	76
5	Pontefract North	75
6	Normanton	74
7	Airedale and Ferry Fryston	73
8	Wakefield South	67
9	Featherstone	66
10	Altofts and Whitwood	63
11	Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton	61

Which road in Featherstone has the highest level of crime?

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