Crime Statistics for South Ossett, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Ossett in September 2024. There were a total of 125 incidents. 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 South Ossett, 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 Crime54
Shoplifting16
Anti Social Behaviour11
Criminal Damage Arson10
Other Theft10
Public Order9
Vehicle Crime7
Drugs3
Other Crime3
Theft From The Person1
Burglary1
All Crime125

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Gawthorpe (1.96 miles)278
Chickenley (1.75 miles)177
Calder and Hebble Navigation (1.8 miles)150
Shepherd Hill (0.62 miles)131
Horbury (0.88 miles)126
South Ossett125
Horbury Junction (1.75 miles)91
Netherton (1.96 miles)48
Healey (0.62 miles)37
Horbury Bridge (1.24 miles)22

3.79%
of Ossett residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near South Ossett?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Gawthorpe157
Chickenley84
Calder and Hebble Navigation79
Horbury68
Shepherd Hill60
South Ossett54
Horbury Junction43
Netherton36
Healey21
Horbury Bridge13

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

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 South Ossett 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 South Ossett compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Ossett and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Ossett is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Dewsbury West89
2Batley West88
3Dewsbury East81
4Wakefield West80
5Wakefield East80
6Wakefield North78
7Batley East76
8Ossett63
9Dewsbury South63
10Horbury and South Ossett51
11Wrenthorpe and Outwood West49

Which road in South Ossett has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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