Crime Statistics for Knottingley, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

There were a total of 174 street level crime incidents in Knottingley in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Knottingley, 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	55
Shoplifting	25
Public Order	21
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Other Theft	15
Vehicle Crime	15
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Other Crime	6
Burglary	6
Drugs	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	174

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 Knottingley. 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 Knottingley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Monkhill (2.55 miles)	270
Knottingley	174
Aire and Calder Navigation (0.95 miles)	145
Water Fryston (2.63 miles)	118
Ferrybridge (1.39 miles)	92
Byram (1.39 miles)	63
Brotherton (1.39 miles)	63
Chequerfield (2.63 miles)	61
Poole (2.48 miles)	14
Kellingley (1.96 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Knottingley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Monkhill	115
Water Fryston	60
Knottingley	55
Aire and Calder Navigation	45
Chequerfield	36
Ferrybridge	28
Byram	17
Brotherton	17
Poole	4
Kellingley	4

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

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 Knottingley 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 Knottingley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Knottingley	90
2	Castleford Central and Glasshoughton	83
3	Pontefract South	76
4	Pontefract North	75
5	Airedale and Ferry Fryston	73
6	Altofts and Whitwood	63
7	Byram & Brotherton	38
8	Monk Fryston	27
9	Camblesforth & Carlton	21
10	South Milford	21
11	Eggborough	20

Which road in Knottingley has the highest level of crime?

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