Crime Statistics for Heworth, York, York, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heworth in August 2024. There were a total of 864 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	230
Violent Crime	229
Shoplifting	142
Criminal Damage Arson	56
Public Order	48
Other Theft	34
Bicycle Theft	32
Burglary	29
Drugs	19
Vehicle Crime	18
Possession Of Weapons	11
Robbery	7
Theft From The Person	6
Other Crime	3
All Crime	864

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 Heworth. 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 Heworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Foss (0.65 miles)	1183
Heworth	864
Layerthorpe (0.62 miles)	579
York (1.39 miles)	562
Tang Hall (0.62 miles)	542
North Yorkshire|Holgate (1.96 miles)	260
Walmgate Stray (1.24 miles)	229
South Bank (1.75 miles)	162
Heslington (1.39 miles)	127
Fulford (1.86 miles)	82

Where are the most violent places near Heworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Foss	369
Layerthorpe	308
Heworth	229
Tang Hall	169
York	161
North Yorkshire|Holgate	84
Walmgate Stray	73
South Bank	42
Heslington	42
Fulford	29

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

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 Heworth 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 Heworth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Westfield	60
2	Guildhall	46
3	Clifton	42
4	Micklegate	39
5	Holgate	33
6	Heworth	31
7	Hull Road	20
8	Rawcliffe & Clifton Without	18
9	Fishergate	14
10	Heworth Without	5
11	Fulford & Heslington	2

Which road in Heworth has the highest level of crime?

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