Crime Statistics for Garforth, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Garforth in August 2024. There were a total of 57 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Garforth, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime22
Criminal Damage Arson9
Shoplifting8
Public Order7
Other Theft3
Anti Social Behaviour3
Vehicle Crime2
Other Crime1
Drugs1
Burglary1
All Crime57

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 Garforth. 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 Garforth

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Brown Moor (2.56 miles)139
Austhorpe (2.56 miles)87
Garforth57
New Micklefield (1.86 miles)54
Little Preston (2.24 miles)36
Ledston (2.78 miles)27
Garden Village (1.86 miles)27
Great Preston (1.96 miles)20
Hollinthorpe (1.96 miles)12
Parlington (1.96 miles)5

3.47%
of Kippax & Methley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Garforth?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Brown Moor60
New Micklefield52
Garforth22
Austhorpe20
Ledston13
Garden Village13
Little Preston11
Great Preston8
Hollinthorpe2
Parlington2

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

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 Garforth 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 Garforth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Garforth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Garforth is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Killingbeck & Seacroft97
2Castleford Central and Glasshoughton83
3Temple Newsam77
4Cross Gates & Whinmoor74
5Rothwell66
6Altofts and Whitwood63
7Kippax & Methley50
8Harewood44
9Garforth & Swillington39
10Byram & Brotherton38
11South Milford21

Which road in Garforth has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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