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Calderdale crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 24,450 street-crime records for the Calderdale council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.8% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 118.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 123.8 for West Yorkshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Calderdale council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Calderdale: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
24,450
Latest month (August 2026)
2,016
Year-on-year
-3.8%
Month-by-month totals
2,2440
2.2k
Sep
2.1k
Oct
2.0k
Nov
1.9k
Dec
1.9k
Jan
1.8k
Feb
2.0k
Mar
2.1k
Apr
2.2k
May
2.2k
Jun
2.2k
Jul
2.0k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,186
October 2025
2,089
November 2025
1,969
December 2025
1,866
January 2026
1,855
February 2026
1,791
March 2026
1,983
April 2026
2,055
May 2026
2,222
June 2026
2,174
July 2026
2,244
August 2026
2,016
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Calderdale council area
118.3
West Yorkshire Police
123.8
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
24,450 records and 206,660 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the Calderdale council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences41.1%
10,051 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour11.3%
2,773 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order8.2%
2,001 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson7.5%
1,825 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting7.4%
1,817 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft6.1%
1,503 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime4.5%
1,112 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary4.1%
991 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Calderdale council area
Records by part of the Calderdale council area: the east 14,688, the north-east 5,879, the south-east 3,149, the west 1,629, the north-west 783, the south 377, the north 272, the centre 268, the south-west 36.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Calderdale council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Calderdale council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Calderdale council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Calderdale council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Calderdale council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E08000033), which can differ from the place people call Calderdale.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Calderdale. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.