Crime Statistics for Gawber, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

Crime statistics for Gawber, Barnsley

There were a total of 104 street level crime incidents in Gawber in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gawber, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime31
Vehicle Crime19
Burglary10
Other Theft10
Anti Social Behaviour9
Criminal Damage Arson9
Public Order7
Shoplifting4
Other Crime2
Theft From The Person1
Possession Of Weapons1
Robbery1
All Crime104

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 Gawber. 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 Gawber

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shaw Lands (0.88 miles)392
Gawber104
Pogmoor (0.62 miles)99
Keresforth Hill (1.24 miles)56
Mapplewell (1.24 miles)49
Higham Common (0.88 miles)29
Higham (0.62 miles)25
Barugh Green (0.62 miles)25
Barugh (0.88 miles)12
Low Barugh (0.88 miles)12

3.5%
of Darton West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gawber?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shaw Lands109
Pogmoor32
Gawber31
Mapplewell21
Keresforth Hill15
Higham Common5
Higham5
Barugh Green5
Barugh1
Low Barugh1

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

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 Gawber 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 Gawber compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gawber and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Gawber have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Kingstone.

#WardScore
1Kingstone86
2St Helens86
3Central84
4Royston81
5Monk Bretton80
6Stairfoot79
7Cudworth73
8Old Town67
9Darton East55
10Dodworth45
11Darton West43

Which road in Gawber has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Gawber 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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