Crime Statistics for Monkswood, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Monkswood in August 2024. There were a total of 513 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Monkswood, 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 Crime259
Public Order48
Anti Social Behaviour47
Burglary42
Criminal Damage Arson36
Other Theft30
Shoplifting16
Vehicle Crime13
Drugs8
Other Crime6
Robbery4
Theft From The Person2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime513

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 Monkswood. 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 Monkswood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hollin Park (0.88 miles)974
Oakwood (1.39 miles)813
Parklands (1.39 miles)732
Beechwood (0.62 miles)546
Brooklands (1.24 miles)533
Monkswood353
Lady Wood (0.62 miles)255
Roundhay (0.62 miles)255
Park Villas (1.39 miles)169
Shadwell (1.24 miles)122

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



Where are the most violent places near Monkswood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hollin Park479
Parklands385
Oakwood337
Monkswood259
Beechwood234
Brooklands213
Shadwell102
Lady Wood95
Roundhay95
Park Villas49

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

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 Monkswood 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 Monkswood compare to surrounding wards?

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

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Monkswood 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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