Crime Statistics for Black Hill, Bradford, West Yorkshire, Bradford, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Black Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 183 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Black Hill, 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	90
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Public Order	12
Vehicle Crime	11
Other Theft	10
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Burglary	10
Other Crime	7
Drugs	4
Shoplifting	4
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	183

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 Black Hill. 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 Black Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Keighley (1.24 miles)	507
Beechcliffe (0.88 miles)	394
Knowle Park (0.88 miles)	361
Exley Head (0.62 miles)	348
Fell Lane (0.62 miles)	214
Black Hill	183
Damems (1.24 miles)	165
Bogthorn (1.24 miles)	118
Laycock (0.88 miles)	56
Goose Eye (1.39 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Black Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Keighley	215
Exley Head	190
Knowle Park	171
Beechcliffe	155
Damems	110
Fell Lane	107
Black Hill	90
Bogthorn	55
Laycock	16
Goose Eye	1

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

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 Black Hill 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 Black Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Black Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Black Hill have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Aire Valley with Lothersdale.

#	Ward	Score
1	Keighley West	81
2	Keighley Central	78
3	Keighley East	70
4	Bingley Rural	69
5	Worth Valley	67
6	Bingley	61
7	Craven	31
8	Sutton-in-Craven	21
9	Cowling	20
10	Glusburn	13
11	Aire Valley with Lothersdale	7

Which road in Black Hill has the highest level of crime?

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