Crime Statistics for Sandal, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandal in October 2024. There were a total of 242 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 Sandal, 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	86
Public Order	41
Vehicle Crime	23
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Other Theft	21
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Other Crime	13
Burglary	12
Shoplifting	9
Robbery	1
All Crime	242

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 Sandal. 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 Sandal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Belle Vue (0.88 miles)	355
Sandal	223
Agbrigg (0.88 miles)	202
Heath Common (1.39 miles)	201
Milnthorpe (0.62 miles)	197
Pledwick (1.24 miles)	168
Portobello	150
Sandal Magna (0.62 miles)	144
Durkar (1.39 miles)	66
Walton (1.39 miles)	38

Where are the most violent places near Sandal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Belle Vue	130
Pledwick	124
Sandal	86
Heath Common	83
Milnthorpe	75
Agbrigg	72
Sandal Magna	51
Portobello	48
Durkar	39
Walton	15

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

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 Sandal 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 Sandal compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Wakefield West	80
2	Wakefield East	80
3	Wakefield North	78
4	Normanton	74
5	Wakefield South	67
6	Featherstone	66
7	Ossett	63
8	Crofton, Ryhill and Walton	59
9	Horbury and South Ossett	51
10	Wakefield Rural	49
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Sandal has the highest level of crime?

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