Crime Statistics for Ardsley, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

There were a total of 112 street level crime incidents in Ardsley 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 Ardsley, 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Burglary	13
Vehicle Crime	10
Shoplifting	9
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Drugs	5
Other Theft	5
Robbery	3
Other Crime	2
Public Order	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	112

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 Ardsley. 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 Ardsley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Monk Bretton (1.75 miles)	334
Kendray (1.24 miles)	326
Measborough Dike (1.24 miles)	326
Cundy Cross (0.88 miles)	210
Stairfoot (0.62 miles)	200
Cudworth (1.86 miles)	119
Ardsley	112
Little Houghton (2.48 miles)	87
Blacker Hill (2.24 miles)	48
Cudworth Common (1.39 miles)	32

Where are the most violent places near Ardsley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Monk Bretton	103
Kendray	101
Measborough Dike	101
Cundy Cross	60
Stairfoot	57
Cudworth	42
Ardsley	36
Little Houghton	34
Blacker Hill	16
Cudworth Common	14

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

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 Ardsley 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 Ardsley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingstone	86
2	St Helens	86
3	Central	84
4	Worsbrough	82
5	Monk Bretton	80
6	Stairfoot	79
7	Darfield	78
8	Cudworth	73
9	Wombwell	73
10	Old Town	67
11	Hoyland Milton	64

Which road in Ardsley has the highest level of crime?

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