Crime Statistics for Barugh Green, Higham, Barnsley, 2024

Crime statistics for Barugh Green, Higham

There were a total of 25 street level crime incidents in Barugh Green in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Burglary6
Vehicle Crime6
Violent Crime5
Other Theft2
Shoplifting2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Public Order1
Robbery1
All Crime25

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Barugh Green. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Barugh Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shaw Lands (1.39 miles)392
Gawber (0.62 miles)104
Pogmoor (0.88 miles)99
Mapplewell (1.39 miles)49
Higham Common (0.62 miles)29
Kexbrough (1.39 miles)27
Higham25
Barugh Green25
Barugh (0.62 miles)12
Low Barugh (0.62 miles)12

4.01%
of Dodworth residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Barugh Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shaw Lands109
Pogmoor32
Gawber31
Mapplewell21
Kexbrough10
Higham Common5
Higham5
Barugh Green5
Barugh1
Low Barugh1

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

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 Barugh Green 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 Barugh Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Kingstone86
2St Helens86
3Central84
4Monk Bretton80
5Stairfoot79
6Old Town67
7Darton East55
8Penistone East51
9Wakefield Rural49
10Dodworth45
11Darton West43

Which road in Barugh Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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