Crime Statistics for Park Mill, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

Crime statistics for Park Mill, Kirklees

There were a total of 31 street level crime incidents in Park Mill in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Park Mill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime17
Vehicle Crime5
Public Order4
Anti Social Behaviour3
Other Crime1
Other Theft1
All Crime31

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Park Mill. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Park Mill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Park Mill31
Park Gate (1.24 miles)23
Roydhouse (2.56 miles)20
Shelley Woodhouse (2.55 miles)13
Lower Cumberworth (2.24 miles)13
Moor Head (1.96 miles)9
Crawshaw (1.75 miles)7
Emley (1.39 miles)7
High Hoyland (1.39 miles)3
Haigh (2.55 miles)2

2.62%
of Denby Dale residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Park Mill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Park Mill17
Park Gate10
Roydhouse10
Shelley Woodhouse7
Lower Cumberworth6
Moor Head6
Crawshaw2
Emley2
High Hoyland1
Haigh1

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

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 Park Mill 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 Park Mill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ossett63
2Dewsbury South63
3Almondbury56
4Darton East55
5Horbury and South Ossett51
6Wakefield Rural49
7Dodworth45
8Darton West43
9Holme Valley South42
10Denby Dale32
11Kirkburton30

Which road in Park Mill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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