Crime Statistics for Hopetown, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hopetown in October 2024. There were a total of 189 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 Hopetown, 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 Crime66
Anti Social Behaviour24
Criminal Damage Arson23
Other Theft17
Shoplifting17
Public Order15
Burglary9
Vehicle Crime9
Bicycle Theft3
Drugs3
Other Crime2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime189

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cutsyke (1.96 miles)572
Castleford (2.24 miles)327
Hopetown189
Loscoe (0.62 miles)154
Altofts (1.24 miles)151
Ackton (1.75 miles)141
Lower Altofts (0.88 miles)137
New Sharlston (1.96 miles)55
Goosehill (1.75 miles)45
Streethouse (1.86 miles)44

5.37%
of Featherstone residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hopetown?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cutsyke351
Castleford177
Hopetown66
Altofts59
Loscoe44
Lower Altofts36
Ackton33
New Sharlston31
Streethouse24
Goosehill20

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

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 Hopetown 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 Hopetown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hopetown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hopetown is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Castleford Central and Glasshoughton83
2Wakefield West80
3Wakefield East80
4Wakefield North78
5Normanton74
6Airedale and Ferry Fryston73
7Wakefield South67
8Featherstone66
9Altofts and Whitwood63
10Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton61
11Stanley and Outwood East50

Which road in Hopetown has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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