Crime Statistics for Portobello, Wakefield, Wakefield, November 2020

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Portobello using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so February 2021 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 103 street level crime incidents in Portobello in February 2021. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Portobello, 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Public Order	10
Other Theft	7
Vehicle Crime	5
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Shoplifting	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	103

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2021

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

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Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Portobello

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Agbrigg (0.88 miles)	172
Belle Vue (0.88 miles)	172
Sandal Magna (0.62 miles)	119
Heath Common (1.39 miles)	117
Portobello	103
Sandal	103
Milnthorpe (0.62 miles)	73
Pledwick (1.24 miles)	64
Durkar (1.39 miles)	58
Walton (1.39 miles)	23

5.4%
of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Portobello

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