Crime Statistics for Oakenshaw, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

There were a total of 76 street level crime incidents in Oakenshaw in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Oakenshaw, 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	33
Burglary	10
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	7
Other Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	3
Other Theft	3
All Crime	76

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 Oakenshaw. 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 Oakenshaw

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Odsal (1.75 miles)	308
Spen (1.75 miles)	150
New Road Side (1.24 miles)	139
Drub (1.39 miles)	136
Gomersal (1.96 miles)	128
Toftshaw (1.39 miles)	99
Oakenshaw	76
Hartshead Moor Top (1.39 miles)	51
Birkenshaw (1.96 miles)	50
Hartshead Moor Side (1.86 miles)	42

Where are the most violent places near Oakenshaw?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Odsal	126
New Road Side	66
Spen	64
Drub	57
Gomersal	52
Toftshaw	33
Oakenshaw	33
Hartshead Moor Top	27
Birkenshaw	20
Hartshead Moor Side	17

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

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 Oakenshaw 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 Oakenshaw compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Oakenshaw and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Oakenshaw is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Wibsey	93
3	Little Horton	92
4	Royds	92
5	Great Horton	89
6	Wyke	88
7	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
8	Cleckheaton	73
9	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
10	Rastrick	66
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Oakenshaw has the highest level of crime?

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