Crime Statistics for Birkby, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birkby in August 2024. There were a total of 646 incidents. 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 Birkby, 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	236
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Public Order	58
Other Theft	54
Vehicle Crime	50
Anti Social Behaviour	42
Burglary	38
Shoplifting	36
Other Crime	32
Drugs	18
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	6
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	646

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Paddock (1.39 miles)	729
Fartown (0.62 miles)	587
Birkby	556
Moldgreen (1.75 miles)	512
Sheepridge (1.39 miles)	477
Marsh (0.88 miles)	338
Oakes (1.39 miles)	270
Netheroyd Hill (0.88 miles)	245
Birchencliffe (1.24 miles)	191
Ainley Top (1.39 miles)	170

Where are the most violent places near Birkby?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Paddock	344
Fartown	242
Birkby	236
Moldgreen	223
Sheepridge	216
Marsh	144
Oakes	110
Netheroyd Hill	95
Birchencliffe	74
Ainley Top	65

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

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 Birkby 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 Birkby compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Birkby and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Birkby is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
4	Ashbrow	72
5	Dalton	70
6	Elland	68
7	Rastrick	66
8	Golcar	63
9	Lindley	63
10	Almondbury	56
11	Colne Valley	55

Which road in Birkby has the highest level of crime?

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