Crime Statistics for Beck Bottom, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

There were a total of 27 street level crime incidents in Beck Bottom 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 Beck Bottom, 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	10
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Public Order	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Burglary	2
Drugs	1
Other Theft	1
Other Crime	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	27

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 Beck Bottom. 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 Beck Bottom

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alverthorpe (1.39 miles)	394
Gawthorpe (1.96 miles)	164
Lofthouse Gate (1.96 miles)	97
The Fall (1.24 miles)	61
Lawns (0.88 miles)	51
Carr Gate (0.88 miles)	51
Haigh Moor (1.39 miles)	35
Balna Beck (1.31 miles)	34
Beck Bottom	27
Jaw Hill (0.62 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Beck Bottom?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alverthorpe	144
Gawthorpe	67
Lofthouse Gate	49
Lawns	22
Carr Gate	22
The Fall	19
Balna Beck	16
Haigh Moor	15
Beck Bottom	10
Jaw Hill	6

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

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 Beck Bottom 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 Beck Bottom compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury East	81
2	Wakefield West	80
3	Wakefield East	80
4	Wakefield North	78
5	Batley East	76
6	Wakefield South	67
7	Morley South	65
8	Ossett	63
9	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62
10	Stanley and Outwood East	50
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Beck Bottom has the highest level of crime?

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