Crime Statistics for Harehills, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harehills in August 2024. There were a total of 1046 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 Harehills, 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	381
Shoplifting	111
Public Order	105
Criminal Damage Arson	95
Other Theft	71
Anti Social Behaviour	67
Burglary	57
Drugs	47
Vehicle Crime	45
Theft From The Person	15
Robbery	14
Other Crime	14
Possession Of Weapons	13
Bicycle Theft	11
All Crime	1046

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 Harehills. 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 Harehills

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little London (1.24 miles)	1699
Sheepscar (0.62 miles)	1397
Burmantofts	1046
Harehills	1046
Fearnville (0.88 miles)	834
Oakwood (1.24 miles)	813
Killingbeck (0.62 miles)	702
Halton (1.39 miles)	255
Halton Moor (1.39 miles)	255
Cross Green (1.24 miles)	239

Where are the most violent places near Harehills?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Harehills 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
Cross Green	122
Halton	120
Halton Moor	82

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

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 Harehills 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 Harehills compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harehills and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harehills 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 Harehills has the highest level of crime?

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