Crime Statistics for Heaton, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

Crime statistics for Heaton, Bradford

There were a total of 328 street level crime incidents in Heaton in January 2024. 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 Heaton, 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 Crime171
Criminal Damage Arson26
Public Order25
Other Crime19
Drugs19
Other Theft18
Burglary14
Vehicle Crime9
Anti Social Behaviour8
Shoplifting7
Robbery6
Possession Of Weapons5
Theft From The Person1
All Crime328

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 Heaton. 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 Heaton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Manningham (1.39 miles)898
Frizinghall (0.62 miles)514
Bolton Woods (1.24 miles)498
Crossley Hall (1.24 miles)455
Daisy Hill (0.62 miles)435
Heaton328
Heaton Royds (0.62 miles)212
Heaton Shay (0.62 miles)212
Saltaire (1.24 miles)174
Allerton (1.39 miles)155

36.66%
of Toller (Bradford) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Heaton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Manningham398
Bolton Woods257
Frizinghall253
Daisy Hill200
Crossley Hall198
Heaton171
Heaton Royds115
Heaton Shay115
Saltaire77
Allerton70

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

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 Heaton 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 Heaton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bowling and Barkerend94
2Bolton and Undercliffe92
3City90
4Great Horton89
5Heaton87
6Thornton and Allerton87
7Windhill and Wrose87
8Manningham86
9Shipley83
10Toller79
11Bingley61

Which road in Heaton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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