Crime Statistics for Cockersdale, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

There were a total of 64 street level crime incidents in Cockersdale in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cockersdale, 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	30
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Vehicle Crime	5
Public Order	4
Drugs	4
Shoplifting	4
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	64

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 Cockersdale. 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 Cockersdale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birkenshaw Bottoms (1.75 miles)	101
Adwalton (0.62 miles)	86
Gildersome Street (0.88 miles)	77
Gildersome (0.62 miles)	66
Moor Head (0.62 miles)	66
Cockersdale	64
Drighlington (0.88 miles)	58
Moorside (0.88 miles)	58
New Farnley (1.39 miles)	40
Tong (0.88 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Cockersdale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birkenshaw Bottoms	48
Adwalton	43
Gildersome Street	35
Cockersdale	30
Drighlington	29
Moorside	29
Gildersome	28
Moor Head	28
New Farnley	18
Tong	9

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

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 Cockersdale 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 Cockersdale compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cockersdale and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Cockersdale have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Tong.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Batley West	88
3	Farnley & Wortley	87
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Pudsey	77
6	Batley East	76
7	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
8	Cleckheaton	73
9	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
10	Morley South	65
11	Morley North	64

Which road in Cockersdale has the highest level of crime?

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