Crime Statistics for Liversedge, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

There were a total of 119 street level crime incidents in Liversedge in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Liversedge, 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	54
Other Theft	16
Other Crime	9
Public Order	9
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Shoplifting	5
Burglary	5
Drugs	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	119

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 Liversedge. 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 Liversedge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Healey (1.39 miles)	305
Birstall Smithies (1.75 miles)	220
Heckmondwike (0.62 miles)	198
Littletown (0.62 miles)	157
Spen (1.39 miles)	150
Rawfolds (0.88 miles)	137
Liversedge	119
Moor Top (1.39 miles)	79
Hartshead (1.39 miles)	11
Little Thorpe (1.39 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Liversedge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Healey	137
Birstall Smithies	105
Heckmondwike	88
Littletown	71
Rawfolds	65
Spen	64
Liversedge	54
Moor Top	30
Hartshead	4
Little Thorpe	4

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

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 Liversedge 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 Liversedge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Dewsbury East	81
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
6	Cleckheaton	73
7	Brighouse	71
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Rastrick	66
10	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57
11	Mirfield	53

Which road in Liversedge has the highest level of crime?

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