Total Crime Rate
275.4 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
154.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Adwick Terrace area has the 7th highest crime rate of 106 local areas in Pontefract North , and the 87th highest crime rate of 1,126 local areas in Wakefield .
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 Adwick Terrace (WF8 2NY) in the last 12 months was 275.4 per 1,000 residents and was 88.4% higher than the Pontefract North average (146.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 27 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 32 (≈ 154.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 10.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -21.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Adwick Terrace (WF8 2NY), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 48 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Mill Dam Lane (11 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Pontefract North| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Malthouse Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Harvest Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Atkinson Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Atkinson Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Elm Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Elizabethan Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Fox Terrace | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Fox Terrace | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Oak Rise | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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