Crime Statistics for Birstwith, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birstwith in October 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour1
Other Theft1
Violent Crime1
Other Crime1
All Crime4

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Birstwith. 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 Birstwith

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Burnt Yates (1.75 miles)6
Birstwith4
Tang (1.24 miles)3
Rowden (1.75 miles)2
Clapham Green (0.88 miles)2
Hew Green (0.62 miles)2
High Birstwith (0.88 miles)1
Hartwith (1.76 miles)1
Kettlesing Bottom (1.39 miles)0
Longscales (1.39 miles)0

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Birstwith?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Birstwith1
Rowden1
Clapham Green1
Hew Green1
Hartwith1
Burnt Yates0
Tang0
High Birstwith0
Kettlesing Bottom0
Longscales0

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

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 Birstwith 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 Birstwith compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Harrogate New Park36
2Harrogate Coppice Valley32
3Harrogate Saltergate22
4Harrogate Bilton Grange19
5Harrogate Duchy12
6Fountains & Ripley8
7Harrogate Old Bilton7
8Harrogate Harlow5
9Killinghall & Hampsthwaite4
10Nidd Valley2
11Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Moors2

Which road in Birstwith has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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