Dewsbury and Batley

England · E14001196

12,503 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
12,503
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
5,457 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,523/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesfalling5,45743.6%
Anti-social behaviourrising1,31510.5%
Public orderfalling1,1369.1%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling8747.0%
Shopliftingrising7526.0%
Other theftfalling6575.3%
Vehicle crimefalling5914.7%
Drugsrising5194.2%
Burglaryrising4543.6%
Other crimefalling4273.4%
Possession of weaponsfalling1170.9%
Robberyfalling980.8%
Theft from the personfalling700.6%
Bicycle theftfalling360.3%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.