Crime Statistics for Birkhouse, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

There were a total of 130 street level crime incidents in Birkhouse in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Birkhouse, 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	58
Shoplifting	19
Public Order	13
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Theft	8
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	3
Drugs	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	130

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Birkhouse. 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 Birkhouse

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brighouse (0.88 miles)	197
Brookfoot (1.39 miles)	154
Bailiff Bridge (0.62 miles)	152
New Road Side (1.86 miles)	139
Toothill (1.96 miles)	130
Birkhouse	130
Hartshead Moor Top (0.88 miles)	51
Hartshead Moor Side (1.24 miles)	42
Red Beck (1.55 miles)	34
Norwood Green (1.75 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Birkhouse?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brighouse	80
Brookfoot	70
Bailiff Bridge	66
New Road Side	66
Birkhouse	58
Toothill	51
Hartshead Moor Top	27
Hartshead Moor Side	17
Red Beck	15
Norwood Green	10

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

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 Birkhouse 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 Birkhouse compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Birkhouse and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Birkhouse is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Royds	92
2	Wyke	88
3	Greenhead	83
4	Town	79
5	Cleckheaton	73
6	Ashbrow	72
7	Brighouse	71
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Elland	68
10	Rastrick	66
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Birkhouse has the highest level of crime?

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