Crime Statistics for Drub, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Drub in October 2024. There were a total of 154 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 Drub, 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	62
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Theft	11
Shoplifting	10
Public Order	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	6
Other Crime	6
Drugs	5
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	154

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 Drub. 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 Drub

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Littletown (1.39 miles)	406
Spen (0.62 miles)	200
Rawfolds (1.24 miles)	181
Oakenshaw (1.39 miles)	155
Drub	154
Gomersal (0.62 miles)	141
Hartshead Moor Side (1.75 miles)	125
Oakwell (1.39 miles)	96
Birkenshaw Bottoms (1.39 miles)	96
Birkenshaw (1.39 miles)	43

Where are the most violent places near Drub?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Littletown	264
Spen	79
Rawfolds	72
Drub	62
Gomersal	60
Hartshead Moor Side	60
Oakwell	47
Birkenshaw Bottoms	47
Oakenshaw	43
Birkenshaw	15

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

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 Drub 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 Drub compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Drub and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Drub is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Wibsey	93
3	Royds	92
4	Wyke	88
5	Batley West	88
6	Heckmondwike	81
7	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
8	Cleckheaton	73
9	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
10	Morley North	64
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Drub has the highest level of crime?

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