Crime Statistics for Beeston, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beeston in September 2024. There were a total of 359 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 Beeston, 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	134
Shoplifting	58
Public Order	37
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Vehicle Crime	25
Drugs	23
Other Theft	19
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	6
Burglary	6
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Robbery	3
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	359

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Holbeck (1.39 miles)	706
Beeston Hill (0.88 miles)	606
Green Side (1.39 miles)	327
Beeston	325
Mill Shaw	325
Churwell (0.88 miles)	325
Far Royds (1.39 miles)	286
Beeston Park Side (0.88 miles)	271
Daisy Hill (1.76 miles)	269
Beeston Royds (1.24 miles)	142

Where are the most violent places near Beeston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Holbeck	244
Beeston Hill	225
Beeston	134
Mill Shaw	122
Green Side	117
Far Royds	117
Churwell	109
Beeston Park Side	106
Daisy Hill	91
Beeston Royds	80

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

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 Beeston 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 Beeston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Beeston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Beeston is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Armley	96
2	Middleton Park	89
3	Beeston & Holbeck	88
4	Farnley & Wortley	87
5	Chapel Allerton	86
6	Hunslet & Riverside	83
7	Little London & Woodhouse	81
8	Headingley & Hyde Park	77
9	Rothwell	66
10	Morley South	65
11	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62

Which road in Beeston has the highest level of crime?

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