Recorded burglaries across the source area.
Pontefract burglary data
Recorded burglary trends
across the Wakefield East policing area.
Police.uk does not expose a separate Pontefract-only burglary boundary. This page uses the official Wakefield East neighbourhood, which includes Pontefract and nearby places as coverage context.
Current overview
The latest recorded month, made easy to read.
These figures use the official Wakefield East Police.uk neighbourhood. The total is not a Pontefract-only count; Police.uk does not provide separate non-overlapping figures for each covered town.
Change from the month before.
Year-on-year comparison where available.
Total for the latest 12 available months.
Historical trend
Pontefract source-area monthly burglary trend.
The chart grows automatically as new months are added to the local historical dataset.
Pontefract source-area total
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Area comparison
Compare Pontefract source-area trends.
The available official source is a single Wakefield East neighbourhood-policing boundary, not individual ward or street totals.
Areas covered
What the Wakefield East boundary includes.
The official Wakefield East boundary is the finest countable Police.uk geography available here. The listed places are coverage context, not separate burglary totals.
Eyesec security planning around Pontefract often needs to consider homes, retail units, industrial premises, outbuildings, yards and shared access routes.
Historical table
Every month in the dataset.
The table shows the most recent month first and updates automatically when future months are added.
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Methodology
Where the figures come from. 
The figures on this page use Police.uk recorded burglary data for the official West Yorkshire Police Wakefield East neighbourhood boundary.
Police statistics normally lag behind the current calendar month. The latest available month in this dataset is loading....
The boundary covers Ackworth, Airedale, Castleford, Ferry Fryston, Glasshoughton, Hemsworth, Knottingley, North Elmsall, Pontefract, South Elmsall, South Kirkby, Upton and surrounding areas. Police.uk does not provide a separate Pontefract-only total.
Source: Police.uk recorded burglary data and official neighbourhood boundary polygons. No ward, street or postcode split is inferred.