Crime Statistics for Lower Denby, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

Is Lower Denby rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 10 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Denby, 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 Crime6
Criminal Damage Arson1
Vehicle Crime1
Other Crime1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime10

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Denby. 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 Lower Denby

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cat Hill (UK) (1.39 miles)17
Lower Denby10
Lower Cumberworth (1.39 miles)8
Royd Moor (1.96 miles)4
High Flatts (1.24 miles)3
Upper Denby (0.62 miles)3
Ingbirchworth (0.88 miles)2
Nether End (0.62 miles)2
South Lane (1.96 miles)1
Upper Cumberworth (1.39 miles)1

2.62%
of Denby Dale residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Denby?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cat Hill (UK)12
Lower Denby6
Lower Cumberworth5
Royd Moor2
High Flatts1
Ingbirchworth1
Nether End1
South Lane1
Upper Cumberworth1
Upper Denby0

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

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 Lower Denby 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 Lower Denby compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Denby and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Denby is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Kingstone86
2Holme Valley North57
3Darton East55
4Penistone East51
5Wakefield Rural49
6Dodworth45
7Darton West43
8Holme Valley South42
9Denby Dale32
10Kirkburton30
11Penistone West29

Which road in Lower Denby has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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