Crime Statistics for Meanwood, Leeds, Leeds, 2025

Is Meanwood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 221 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 Meanwood, 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 Crime79
Vehicle Crime26
Other Theft22
Shoplifting16
Criminal Damage Arson14
Public Order14
Burglary14
Anti Social Behaviour12
Other Crime9
Possession Of Weapons6
Drugs6
Robbery2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime221

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 Meanwood. 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 Meanwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Potternewton (1.39 miles)669
Miles Hill (0.88 miles)399
Chapel Allerton (1.24 miles)251
Lawnswood (1.39 miles)236
Adel (1.39 miles)230
Meanwood221
Ireland Wood (1.39 miles)187
Camp Town (1.75 miles)173
Moortown (1.39 miles)159
Black Moor (1.39 miles)140

18.3%
of Moortown residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Meanwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Potternewton277
Miles Hill163
Moortown155
Ireland Wood136
Chapel Allerton117
Lawnswood99
Adel87
Meanwood79
Camp Town73
Black Moor59

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

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 Meanwood 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 Meanwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Gipton & Harehills96
2Armley96
3Kirkstall90
4Chapel Allerton86
5Hunslet & Riverside83
6Little London & Woodhouse81
7Headingley & Hyde Park77
8Weetwood71
9Roundhay66
10Moortown59
11Adel & Wharfedale44

Which road in Meanwood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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