Crime Statistics for Monkswood, Leeds, Leeds, 2025

Is Monkswood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 206 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 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	102
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Burglary	15
Public Order	13
Other Theft	12
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Vehicle Crime	9
Drugs	6
Shoplifting	6
Robbery	5
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	206

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Hollin Park (0.88 miles)	938
Parklands (1.39 miles)	701
Brooklands (1.24 miles)	683
Oakwood (1.39 miles)	650
Beechwood (0.62 miles)	596
Monkswood	206
Roundhay (0.62 miles)	201
Lady Wood (0.62 miles)	200
Park Villas (1.39 miles)	120
Shadwell (1.24 miles)	32

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Brooklands	382
Hollin Park	372
Parklands	364
Beechwood	345
Oakwood	277
Monkswood	102
Roundhay	94
Lady Wood	89
Park Villas	46
Shadwell	13

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Killingbeck & Seacroft	97
2	Gipton & Harehills	96
3	Burmantofts & Richmond Hill	91
4	Chapel Allerton	86
5	Hunslet & Riverside	83
6	Little London & Woodhouse	81
7	Headingley & Hyde Park	77
8	Temple Newsam	77
9	Cross Gates & Whinmoor	74
10	Roundhay	66
11	Harewood	44

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.