Total Crime Rate
178.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
123.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Third Avenue area has the 14th highest crime rate of 71 local areas in Cleckheaton , and the 164th highest crime rate of 1,332 local areas in Kirklees .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Third Avenue (WF15 8JS) in the last 12 months was 178.2 per 1,000 residents and was 61.1% higher than the Cleckheaton average (110.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 42 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 7.7% YoY). The sharpest decline was Drugs ( -66.7% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 43 (≈ 123.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 7.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 23.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Third Avenue (WF15 8JS), the main crime hotspot is near Fifth Avenue West. Police recorded 31 crimes here, including 24 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Liversedge and Gomersal| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tanner Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Second Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Waltons Heights | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Third Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Third Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Third Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ninth Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ninth Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Ninth Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Lincs Wold | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Second Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lincs Wold | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Second Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Seventh Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fifth Avenue West | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Second Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Buttershaw Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Mowat Court | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | B6119 | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Seventh Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Central Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Thirteenth Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Second Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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