Crime Statistics for Pontefract, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

Is Pontefract rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 352 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 Pontefract, 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 Crime170
Anti Social Behaviour42
Shoplifting27
Public Order26
Criminal Damage Arson24
Other Theft16
Burglary10
Other Crime10
Possession Of Weapons10
Drugs6
Robbery4
Vehicle Crime3
Theft From The Person2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime352

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Red Hill (2.56 miles)338
Pontefract332
Airedale (2.48 miles)282
Monkhill (0.62 miles)253
Featherstone (1.96 miles)201
Ferrybridge (2.24 miles)181
Ackton (2.48 miles)180
Strawberry Hill (1.86 miles)106
Chequerfield (0.88 miles)58
Carleton (0.88 miles)58

6.52%
of Pontefract North residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Pontefract?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Featherstone180
Pontefract170
Airedale135
Red Hill122
Monkhill111
Ferrybridge94
Ackton74
Strawberry Hill47
Chequerfield32
Carleton32

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

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 Pontefract 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 Pontefract compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Knottingley90
2Castleford Central and Glasshoughton83
3Hemsworth79
4Pontefract South76
5Pontefract North75
6Airedale and Ferry Fryston73
7Featherstone66
8Altofts and Whitwood63
9Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton61
10Byram & Brotherton38
11Monk Fryston27

Which road in Pontefract has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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