Crime Statistics for Spen, Kirklees, Kirklees, 2024

There were a total of 150 street level crime incidents in Spen in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Spen, 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	64
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Public Order	13
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Burglary	10
Other Theft	10
Other Crime	8
Drugs	7
Vehicle Crime	5
Shoplifting	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	150

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 Spen. 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 Spen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Littletown (0.88 miles)	157
Spen	150
Rawfolds (0.62 miles)	137
Drub (0.62 miles)	136
Gomersal (0.88 miles)	128
Liversedge (1.39 miles)	119
Oakwell (1.75 miles)	101
Birkenshaw Bottoms (1.75 miles)	101
Oakenshaw (1.75 miles)	76
Hartshead Moor Side (1.39 miles)	42

Where are the most violent places near Spen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Littletown	71
Rawfolds	65
Spen	64
Drub	57
Liversedge	54
Gomersal	52
Oakwell	48
Birkenshaw Bottoms	48
Oakenshaw	33
Hartshead Moor Side	17

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

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 Spen 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 Spen compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Wyke	88
3	Batley West	88
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
6	Cleckheaton	73
7	Brighouse	71
8	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
9	Rastrick	66
10	Morley North	64
11	Hipperholme and Lightcliffe	57

Which road in Spen has the highest level of crime?

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