Crime rates are higher than the national average.

[2] Dewsbury Moor Amateur Rugby league Football Club is based on Heckmondwike Road and has three playing fields nearby.

[4] The area was at the centre of national media and public attention in early 2008, when nine-year-old Shannon Matthews disappeared from near her home, in Dewsbury Moor, on the afternoon of 19 February 2008.

[5] After a 24-day search, she was found alive on 14 March 2008 at a flat in Batley Carr.

[6] Michael Donavan, the man whose flat she was found in, was (along with Shannon's mother Karen) later jailed for eight years for abduction and false imprisonment.