Crime Statistics for Lady Wood, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lady Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 277 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lady Wood, 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 Crime101
Vehicle Crime43
Burglary30
Anti Social Behaviour26
Public Order17
Other Theft15
Shoplifting12
Criminal Damage Arson11
Drugs8
Robbery5
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons3
Bicycle Theft2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime277

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 Lady Wood. 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 Lady Wood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fearnville (1.24 miles)1297
Brooklands (1.39 miles)1266
Oakwood (0.88 miles)737
Hollin Park (0.62 miles)699
Beechwood (0.88 miles)546
Monkswood (0.62 miles)480
Lady Wood277
Roundhay277
Park Villas (0.88 miles)179
Shadwell (1.39 miles)39

14.39%
of Killingbeck & Seacroft residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lady Wood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Brooklands1059
Fearnville581
Oakwood366
Hollin Park268
Monkswood244
Beechwood234
Lady Wood101
Roundhay101
Park Villas56
Shadwell12

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

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 Lady Wood 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 Lady Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Killingbeck & Seacroft97
2Gipton & Harehills96
3Burmantofts & Richmond Hill91
4Chapel Allerton86
5Hunslet & Riverside83
6Little London & Woodhouse81
7Headingley & Hyde Park77
8Temple Newsam77
9Cross Gates & Whinmoor74
10Roundhay66
11Harewood44

Which road in Lady Wood has the highest level of crime?

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

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