Crime Statistics for Adwalton, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Adwalton in October 2024. There were a total of 526 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Adwalton, 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	212
Anti Social Behaviour	56
Shoplifting	44
Vehicle Crime	36
Other Crime	34
Other Theft	32
Public Order	32
Burglary	32
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Drugs	8
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	526

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Adwalton. 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 Adwalton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Adwalton	260
Copley Hill (1.24 miles)	159
Gildersome Street (0.62 miles)	127
Cockersdale (0.62 miles)	104
Drighlington (0.62 miles)	101
Moorside (0.62 miles)	101
Gildersome (0.88 miles)	98
Moor Head (0.88 miles)	98
Oakwell (1.39 miles)	96
Birkenshaw Bottoms (1.39 miles)	96

Where are the most violent places near Adwalton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Adwalton	212
Copley Hill	67
Drighlington	52
Moorside	52
Oakwell	47
Birkenshaw Bottoms	47
Cockersdale	43
Gildersome Street	41
Gildersome	37
Moor Head	37

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

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 Adwalton 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 Adwalton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Adwalton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Adwalton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Tong.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tong	95
2	Dewsbury West	89
3	Batley West	88
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Pudsey	77
6	Batley East	76
7	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
8	Cleckheaton	73
9	Liversedge and Gomersal	69
10	Morley South	65
11	Morley North	64

Which road in Adwalton has the highest level of crime?

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