Crime Statistics for Shay Gate, Bradford, Bradford, 2024

There were a total of 44 street level crime incidents in Shay Gate in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shay Gate, 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	16
Public Order	6
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	4
Other Crime	3
Other Theft	3
Shoplifting	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	44

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 Shay Gate. 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 Shay Gate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heaton (1.86 miles)	322
Lower Grange (1.75 miles)	248
Heaton Royds (1.96 miles)	197
Heaton Shay (1.96 miles)	197
Allerton (0.88 miles)	153
Beck Foot (1.86 miles)	80
Shay Gate	44
Bents Head (1.39 miles)	24
New Holland (1.24 miles)	23
Harecroft (1.24 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Shay Gate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Heaton	164
Lower Grange	119
Heaton Royds	108
Heaton Shay	108
Allerton	64
Beck Foot	25
Shay Gate	16
New Holland	10
Harecroft	10
Bents Head	5

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

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 Shay Gate 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 Shay Gate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Clayton and Fairweather Green	91
2	Heaton	87
3	Thornton and Allerton	87
4	Manningham	86
5	Illingworth and Mixenden	86
6	Shipley	83
7	Toller	79
8	Queensbury	78
9	Keighley East	70
10	Bingley Rural	69
11	Bingley	61

Which road in Shay Gate has the highest level of crime?

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