Crime Statistics for Birstall, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

There were a total of 169 street level crime incidents in Birstall in February 2024. 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 Birstall, 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	84
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Vehicle Crime	16
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	9
Public Order	9
Burglary	7
Other Crime	5
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	169

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 Birstall. 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 Birstall

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Healey (1.24 miles)	333
Upper Batley (1.39 miles)	220
Birstall Smithies (0.62 miles)	220
Copley Hill (0.62 miles)	189
Birstall	169
Gomersal (1.24 miles)	150
Oakwell (0.88 miles)	141
Birkenshaw Bottoms (0.88 miles)	101
Drighlington (1.24 miles)	99
Moorside (1.24 miles)	99

Where are the most violent places near Birstall?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Healey	168
Upper Batley	105
Birstall Smithies	105
Copley Hill	95
Birstall	84
Oakwell	60
Gomersal	51
Birkenshaw Bottoms	48
Drighlington	43
Moorside	43

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

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 Birstall 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 Birstall compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Dewsbury West	89
3	Batley West	88
4	Dewsbury East	81
5	Heckmondwike	81
6	Batley East	76
7	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
8	Cleckheaton	73
9	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
10	Morley South	65
11	Morley North	64

Which road in Birstall has the highest level of crime?

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