Crime Statistics for High Hoyland, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

There were a total of 5 street level crime incidents in High Hoyland in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Possession Of Weapons.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in High Hoyland, 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	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Public Order	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	5

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 High Hoyland. 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 High Hoyland

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Park Mill (1.39 miles)	31
Kexbrough (1.96 miles)	28
Park Gate (2.55 miles)	23
Cawthorne (1.96 miles)	7
South Lane (2.56 miles)	7
High Hoyland	5
Raw Green (1.86 miles)	4
Tivy Dale (1.86 miles)	4
Nether End (2.63 miles)	3
Haigh (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near High Hoyland?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park Mill	17
Kexbrough	10
Park Gate	10
Cawthorne	2
High Hoyland	2
South Lane	1
Raw Green	0
Tivy Dale	0
Nether End	0
Haigh	0

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

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 High Hoyland 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 High Hoyland compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingstone	86
2	St Helens	86
3	Central	84
4	Monk Bretton	80
5	Old Town	67
6	Darton East	55
7	Horbury and South Ossett	51
8	Wakefield Rural	49
9	Dodworth	45
10	Darton West	43
11	Denby Dale	32

Which road in High Hoyland has the highest level of crime?

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