Crime Statistics for South Hiendley, Barnsley, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Hiendley in August 2024. There were a total of 50 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Hiendley, 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 Crime21
Vehicle Crime10
Anti Social Behaviour8
Public Order4
Burglary4
Criminal Damage Arson3
All Crime50

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Carlton (2.24 miles)286
Hemsworth (1.96 miles)111
Upper Cudworth (1.96 miles)99
Brierley (1.75 miles)66
Belle Green (1.86 miles)59
Felkirk (0.62 miles)50
South Hiendley46
Ryhill (1.39 miles)40
Newstead (1.24 miles)35
Cold Hiendley (1.75 miles)7

4.94%
of Hemsworth residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near South Hiendley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Carlton95
Hemsworth48
Belle Green41
Upper Cudworth34
Newstead33
Brierley29
Ryhill23
South Hiendley21
Felkirk19
Cold Hiendley2

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

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 South Hiendley 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 South Hiendley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Hiendley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Hiendley is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1St Helens86
2Royston81
3South Elmsall and South Kirkby81
4Monk Bretton80
5Stairfoot79
6Hemsworth79
7Darfield78
8Cudworth73
9Old Town67
10Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton61
11Crofton, Ryhill and Walton59

Which road in South Hiendley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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