Crime Statistics for Birstall, Kirklees, Kirklees, June 2022

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Birstall using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so June 2022 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 221 street level crime incidents in Birstall in June 2022. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Birstall, 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	89
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Public Order	25
Vehicle Crime	18
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Burglary	12
Other Theft	8
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	2
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	221

Map of street level crime incidents in June 2022

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Healey (1.24 miles)	353
Upper Batley (1.39 miles)	320
Birstall Smithies (0.62 miles)	307
Birstall	221
Copley Hill (0.62 miles)	196
Birkenshaw Bottoms (0.88 miles)	165
Gomersal (1.24 miles)	141
Moorside (1.24 miles)	121
Drighlington (1.24 miles)	121
Oakwell (0.88 miles)	112

Most violent places near Birstall

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birstall Smithies	146
Healey	142
Upper Batley	126
Birstall	89
Copley Hill	79
Birkenshaw Bottoms	64
Gomersal	47
Moorside	44
Drighlington	44
Oakwell	44