Crime Statistics for South Hiendley, Barnsley, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Hiendley in October 2024. There were a total of 35 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	18
Burglary	3
Other Crime	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	35

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Carlton (2.24 miles)	276
Hemsworth (1.96 miles)	158
Upper Cudworth (1.96 miles)	90
Belle Green (1.86 miles)	87
Brierley (1.75 miles)	83
Felkirk (0.62 miles)	64
Ryhill (1.39 miles)	39
Newstead (1.24 miles)	36
South Hiendley	35
Cold Hiendley (1.75 miles)	19

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Carlton	80
Hemsworth	64
Upper Cudworth	35
Belle Green	30
Felkirk	30
Ryhill	25
Brierley	23
Newstead	18
South Hiendley	18
Cold Hiendley	5

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Helens	86
2	Royston	81
3	South Elmsall and South Kirkby	81
4	Monk Bretton	80
5	Stairfoot	79
6	Hemsworth	79
7	Darfield	78
8	Cudworth	73
9	Old Town	67
10	Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton	61
11	Crofton, Ryhill and Walton	59

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.