Crime Statistics for Sheepscar, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sheepscar in August 2024. There were a total of 2238 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sheepscar, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	890
Shoplifting	353
Public Order	276
Other Theft	141
Vehicle Crime	104
Criminal Damage Arson	88
Anti Social Behaviour	78
Theft From The Person	55
Drugs	53
Burglary	52
Robbery	48
Bicycle Theft	36
Other Crime	35
Possession Of Weapons	29
All Crime	2238

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Sheepscar. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Sheepscar

We've taken the ten nearest places to Sheepscar and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Sheepscar has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Little London (0.62 miles)	1699
Sheepscar	1397
Burmantofts (0.62 miles)	1046
Harehills (0.62 miles)	1046
Fearnville (1.39 miles)	834
Oakwood (1.39 miles)	813
Knowsthorpe (1.24 miles)	777
Killingbeck (1.24 miles)	702
Potternewton (1.39 miles)	519
Cross Green (1.39 miles)	239

Where are the most violent places near Sheepscar?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Sheepscar and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Sheepscar	890
Little London	517
Burmantofts	381
Harehills	381
Oakwood	337
Fearnville	336
Killingbeck	259
Knowsthorpe	255
Potternewton	223
Cross Green	122

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Sheepscar?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Sheepscar to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Sheepscar compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sheepscar and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sheepscar is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Killingbeck & Seacroft	97
2	Gipton & Harehills	96
3	Armley	96
4	Burmantofts & Richmond Hill	91
5	Middleton Park	89
6	Beeston & Holbeck	88
7	Chapel Allerton	86
8	Hunslet & Riverside	83
9	Little London & Woodhouse	81
10	Headingley & Hyde Park	77
11	Roundhay	66

Which road in Sheepscar has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Sheepscar with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.