Crime Statistics for Shaw Lands, Barnsley, Barnsley, 2024

There were a total of 470 street level crime incidents in Shaw Lands in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shaw Lands, 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	130
Shoplifting	86
Criminal Damage Arson	54
Public Order	48
Anti Social Behaviour	41
Vehicle Crime	36
Other Theft	24
Drugs	13
Burglary	11
Other Crime	10
Robbery	6
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	470

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 Shaw Lands. 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 Shaw Lands

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barnsley (0.62 miles)	680
Shaw Lands	470
Gawber (0.88 miles)	102
Ward Green (1.39 miles)	93
Pogmoor (0.62 miles)	84
Keresforth Hill (0.88 miles)	49
Higham Common (1.24 miles)	29
Higham (1.39 miles)	27
Barugh Green (1.39 miles)	27
Low Barugh (1.75 miles)	25

Where are the most violent places near Shaw Lands?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barnsley	197
Shaw Lands	130
Gawber	45
Ward Green	43
Pogmoor	34
Keresforth Hill	17
Higham Common	10
Higham	3
Barugh Green	3
Low Barugh	3

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

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 Shaw Lands 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 Shaw Lands compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Kingstone	86
2	St Helens	86
3	Central	84
4	Worsbrough	82
5	Monk Bretton	80
6	Stairfoot	79
7	Cudworth	73
8	Old Town	67
9	Darton East	55
10	Dodworth	45
11	Darton West	43

Which road in Shaw Lands has the highest level of crime?

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