Crime Statistics for South Ossett, Wakefield, Wakefield, 2024

There were a total of 110 street level crime incidents in South Ossett in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	56
Public Order	11
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Other Crime	4
Burglary	4
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	110

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Gawthorpe (1.96 miles)	164
Chickenley (1.75 miles)	157
Shepherd Hill (0.62 miles)	124
Calder and Hebble Navigation (1.8 miles)	120
South Ossett	110
Horbury (0.88 miles)	68
Horbury Junction (1.75 miles)	54
Healey (0.62 miles)	45
Netherton (1.96 miles)	17
Horbury Bridge (1.24 miles)	17

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Gawthorpe	67
Chickenley	63
Shepherd Hill	60
South Ossett	56
Calder and Hebble Navigation	51
Horbury	38
Horbury Junction	24
Healey	22
Netherton	10
Horbury Bridge	7

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Dewsbury East	81
4	Wakefield West	80
5	Wakefield East	80
6	Wakefield North	78
7	Batley East	76
8	Ossett	63
9	Dewsbury South	63
10	Horbury and South Ossett	51
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

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 Watson Avenue.