Crime Statistics for Friendly, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

Crime statistics for Friendly, Calderdale

There were a total of 117 street level crime incidents in Friendly 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 Friendly, 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 Crime55
Criminal Damage Arson11
Other Theft11
Public Order10
Vehicle Crime6
Burglary6
Anti Social Behaviour5
Other Crime3
Drugs3
Shoplifting3
Theft From The Person1
Bicycle Theft1
Robbery1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime117

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 Friendly. 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 Friendly

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pellon (1.39 miles)343
Friendly117
Sowerby Bridge (0.88 miles)98
Warley Town (0.62 miles)74
Sowerby (0.88 miles)47
Boulder Clough (1.39 miles)27
Clough Head (1.39 miles)20
Kebroyd (1.96 miles)13
Longley (1.86 miles)10
Greetland Wall Nook (1.96 miles)1

4.44%
of Sowerby Bridge residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Friendly?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pellon165
Friendly55
Sowerby Bridge49
Warley Town36
Sowerby24
Boulder Clough11
Clough Head7
Kebroyd7
Longley6
Greetland Wall Nook0

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

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 Friendly 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 Friendly compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Friendly and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Friendly is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Ovenden95
2Park86
3Warley81
4Town79
5Skircoat76
6Sowerby Bridge72
7Luddendenfoot64
8Greetland and Stainland55
9Colne Valley55
10Ryburn54
11Calder53

Which road in Friendly has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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