Crime Statistics for Rastrick, Calderdale, Calderdale, 2024

There were a total of 83 street level crime incidents in Rastrick in July 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rastrick, 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Public Order	7
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Burglary	6
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	2
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	83

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Netheroyd Hill (1.39 miles)	528
Brighouse (1.39 miles)	364
Sheepridge (1.76 miles)	347
Birkby (1.86 miles)	294
Brookfoot (1.24 miles)	154
Toothill (0.62 miles)	129
Cromwell Bottom (0.88 miles)	92
Ainley Top (1.76 miles)	87
Rastrick	83
Southowram (1.75 miles)	78

Where are the most violent places near Rastrick?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brighouse	372
Netheroyd Hill	200
Sheepridge	135
Birkby	135
Toothill	86
Brookfoot	85
Southowram	40
Cromwell Bottom	38
Ainley Top	38
Rastrick	36

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

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 Rastrick 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 Rastrick compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rastrick and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rastrick is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Town	79
4	Ashbrow	72
5	Brighouse	71
6	Dalton	70
7	Elland	68
8	Rastrick	66
9	Golcar	63
10	Lindley	63
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Rastrick has the highest level of crime?

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