Crime Statistics for Lockwood, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lockwood in August 2024. There were a total of 357 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lockwood, 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	222
Public Order	26
Vehicle Crime	19
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Other Theft	15
Burglary	14
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Drugs	10
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Shoplifting	2
All Crime	357

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 Lockwood. 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 Lockwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Paddock (0.88 miles)	729
Milnsbridge (1.24 miles)	228
Lockwood	204
Lower Houses (1.24 miles)	169
Crosland Moor (1.24 miles)	153
Berry Brow (0.62 miles)	147
Newsome (0.88 miles)	142
Hall Bower (0.88 miles)	142
Crosland Hill (1.39 miles)	80
Armitage Bridge (1.24 miles)	72

Where are the most violent places near Lockwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Paddock	344
Lockwood	222
Milnsbridge	124
Newsome	99
Hall Bower	99
Lower Houses	93
Berry Brow	92
Crosland Moor	74
Armitage Bridge	47
Crosland Hill	36

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

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 Lockwood 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 Lockwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lockwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lockwood is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsome	87
2	Greenhead	83
3	Crosland Moor and Netherton	75
4	Ashbrow	72
5	Dalton	70
6	Elland	68
7	Golcar	63
8	Lindley	63
9	Holme Valley North	57
10	Almondbury	56
11	Kirkburton	30

Which road in Lockwood has the highest level of crime?

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