Crime Statistics for Crofton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crofton in October 2024. There were a total of 18 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 Crofton, 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	7
Public Order	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	18

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 Crofton. 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 Crofton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Sharlston (1.86 miles)	55
Streethouse (1.96 miles)	44
Ryhill (1.86 miles)	39
Walton (1.86 miles)	38
Newstead (1.96 miles)	36
Sharlston Common (1.24 miles)	35
Cold Hiendley (1.96 miles)	19
Foulby (0.62 miles)	18
New Crofton	18
Crofton	18

Where are the most violent places near Crofton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Sharlston	31
Ryhill	25
Streethouse	24
Newstead	18
Sharlston Common	18
Walton	15
Foulby	7
New Crofton	7
Crofton	7
Cold Hiendley	5

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

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 Crofton 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 Crofton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Crofton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Crofton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Royston	81
2	Wakefield West	80
3	Wakefield East	80
4	Hemsworth	79
5	Wakefield North	78
6	Normanton	74
7	Wakefield South	67
8	Featherstone	66
9	Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton	61
10	Crofton, Ryhill and Walton	59
11	Horbury and South Ossett	51

Which road in Crofton has the highest level of crime?

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