Crime Statistics for Pellon, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

There were a total of 401 street level crime incidents in Pellon in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pellon, 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	240
Other Theft	28
Public Order	27
Shoplifting	20
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Other Crime	17
Drugs	15
Vehicle Crime	12
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Burglary	7
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	1
All Crime	401

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Boothtown (0.88 miles)	730
Claremount (1.24 miles)	692
Halifax (1.24 miles)	692
Stoney Royd (1.39 miles)	554
Pellon	401
Bank Top (1.96 miles)	365
Illingworth (1.86 miles)	296
Friendly (1.39 miles)	100
Sowerby Bridge (1.39 miles)	83
Warley Town (1.24 miles)	65

Where are the most violent places near Pellon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Boothtown	353
Claremount	293
Halifax	293
Pellon	240
Stoney Royd	224
Bank Top	133
Illingworth	111
Friendly	42
Sowerby Bridge	36
Warley Town	33

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

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 Pellon 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 Pellon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pellon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Pellon is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ovenden	95
2	Illingworth and Mixenden	86
3	Park	86
4	Warley	81
5	Town	79
6	Queensbury	78
7	Skircoat	76
8	Sowerby Bridge	72
9	Northowram and Shelf	66
10	Luddendenfoot	64
11	Calder	53

Which road in Pellon has the highest level of crime?

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