Crime Statistics for Lower Altofts, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Altofts in October 2024. There were a total of 137 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 Lower Altofts, 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Shoplifting	16
Public Order	11
Burglary	10
Other Theft	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	137

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 Lower Altofts. 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 Lower Altofts

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cutsyke (2.48 miles)	572
Hopetown (0.88 miles)	189
Loscoe (1.39 miles)	154
Altofts (0.88 miles)	151
Lower Altofts	137
Bottom Boat (1.86 miles)	59
New Sharlston (2.48 miles)	55
Goosehill (1.96 miles)	45
Royds Green (2.24 miles)	40
Lower Mickletown (2.24 miles)	25

Where are the most violent places near Lower Altofts?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cutsyke	351
Hopetown	66
Altofts	59
Loscoe	44
Royds Green	44
Lower Altofts	36
Bottom Boat	33
New Sharlston	31
Goosehill	20
Lower Mickletown	16

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

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 Lower Altofts 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 Lower Altofts compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Castleford Central and Glasshoughton	83
2	Wakefield West	80
3	Wakefield East	80
4	Wakefield North	78
5	Normanton	74
6	Wakefield South	67
7	Featherstone	66
8	Rothwell	66
9	Altofts and Whitwood	63
10	Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton	61
11	Stanley and Outwood East	50

Which road in Lower Altofts has the highest level of crime?

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