Crime Statistics for Burmantofts, Leeds, Leeds, 2025

Is Burmantofts rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 919 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 Burmantofts, 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	314
Shoplifting	151
Other Theft	71
Public Order	69
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Vehicle Crime	59
Drugs	47
Anti Social Behaviour	37
Burglary	33
Robbery	27
Other Crime	25
Possession Of Weapons	14
Theft From The Person	7
Bicycle Theft	5
All Crime	919

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little London (1.24 miles)	2004
Sheepscar (0.62 miles)	1670
Harehills	944
Burmantofts	919
Fearnville (0.88 miles)	703
Killingbeck (0.62 miles)	660
Oakwood (1.24 miles)	650
Halton Moor (1.39 miles)	451
Cross Green (1.24 miles)	250
Halton (1.39 miles)	230

Where are the most violent places near Burmantofts?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little London	666
Sheepscar	505
Halton Moor	376
Harehills	355
Burmantofts	314
Oakwood	277
Fearnville	273
Killingbeck	266
Halton	108
Cross Green	90

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

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 Burmantofts 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 Burmantofts compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Burmantofts and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Burmantofts is ranked #4.

#	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	Temple Newsam	77

Which road in Burmantofts has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Burmantofts with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around St Stephen's Road.