Crime Statistics for Higham, Barnsley, 2024

There were a total of 27 street level crime incidents in Higham in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	6
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Shoplifting	4
Violent Crime	3
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	27

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 Higham. 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 Higham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shaw Lands (1.39 miles)	470
Gawber (0.62 miles)	102
Pogmoor (0.88 miles)	84
Mapplewell (1.39 miles)	75
Higham Common (0.62 miles)	29
Kexbrough (1.39 miles)	28
Higham	27
Barugh Green	27
Barugh (0.62 miles)	25
Low Barugh (0.62 miles)	25

Where are the most violent places near Higham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shaw Lands	130
Gawber	45
Pogmoor	34
Mapplewell	21
Higham Common	10
Kexbrough	10
Higham	3
Barugh Green	3
Barugh	3
Low Barugh	3

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

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 Higham 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 Higham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Higham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Higham 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	Stairfoot	79
6	Old Town	67
7	Darton East	55
8	Penistone East	51
9	Wakefield Rural	49
10	Dodworth	45
11	Darton West	43

Which road in Higham has the highest level of crime?

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