Crime Statistics for Lower Soothill, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

There were a total of 215 street level crime incidents in Lower Soothill in February 2024. 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 Lower Soothill, 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	73
Public Order	24
Vehicle Crime	23
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Shoplifting	19
Other Theft	18
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Drugs	8
Burglary	5
Robbery	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	215

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 Lower Soothill. 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 Lower Soothill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Carlinghow (1.24 miles)	413
Batley Carr (1.39 miles)	352
Staincliffe (1.39 miles)	352
Batley (0.62 miles)	348
Hanging Heaton (0.62 miles)	333
Upper Batley (0.88 miles)	250
Lower Soothill	215
Chidswell (0.88 miles)	137
Beggarington Hill (1.24 miles)	61
Upper Green (1.39 miles)	49

Where are the most violent places near Lower Soothill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Carlinghow	176
Batley Carr	158
Staincliffe	158
Batley	144
Hanging Heaton	119
Upper Batley	104
Lower Soothill	73
Chidswell	49
Upper Green	25
Beggarington Hill	23

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

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 Lower Soothill 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 Lower Soothill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Soothill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lower Soothill is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Dewsbury East	81
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Batley East	76
6	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
7	Morley South	65
8	Morley North	64
9	Ossett	63
10	Dewsbury South	63
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Lower Soothill has the highest level of crime?

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