Crime Statistics for New Sharlston, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

Crime statistics for New Sharlston, Wakefield

There were a total of 53 street level crime incidents in New Sharlston in January 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 New Sharlston, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime36
Criminal Damage Arson8
Public Order5
Possession Of Weapons1
Anti Social Behaviour1
Theft From The Person1
Burglary1
All Crime53

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes New Sharlston. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 New Sharlston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Calder (1.86 miles)194
Heath Common (1.96 miles)167
Ackton (1.96 miles)70
New Sharlston53
Streethouse (0.62 miles)38
Sharlston Common (0.62 miles)31
Goosehill (0.88 miles)26
New Crofton (1.86 miles)18
Crofton (1.86 miles)18
Warmfield (0.62 miles)16

5.37%
of Featherstone residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Sharlston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Calder71
Heath Common52
New Sharlston36
Streethouse25
Sharlston Common21
Ackton20
Goosehill20
New Crofton11
Crofton11
Warmfield9

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

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 New Sharlston 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 New Sharlston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Sharlston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. New Sharlston is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Castleford Central and Glasshoughton83
2Wakefield West80
3Wakefield East80
4Wakefield North78
5Normanton74
6Wakefield South67
7Featherstone66
8Altofts and Whitwood63
9Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton61
10Crofton, Ryhill and Walton59
11Stanley and Outwood East50

Which road in New Sharlston has the highest level of crime?

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

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