Crime Statistics for New Scarbro, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Scarbro in September 2024. There were a total of 756 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 New Scarbro, 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	316
Public Order	80
Criminal Damage Arson	68
Anti Social Behaviour	62
Burglary	48
Shoplifting	42
Vehicle Crime	40
Other Theft	36
Other Crime	30
Drugs	18
Theft From The Person	6
Robbery	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	756

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 New Scarbro. 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 New Scarbro

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Scarbro	629
Upper Armley (1.24 miles)	520
Sandford (0.88 miles)	439
Farsley Beck Bottom (1.39 miles)	433
Moorside (0.62 miles)	421
Intake (1.39 miles)	385
Farnley (1.39 miles)	228
Bagley (1.39 miles)	226
Swinnow Moor (0.88 miles)	163
Fulneck (1.75 miles)	89

Where are the most violent places near New Scarbro?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Scarbro	316
Upper Armley	203
Moorside	183
Sandford	176
Farsley Beck Bottom	163
Intake	161
Farnley	96
Bagley	87
Swinnow Moor	62
Fulneck	29

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

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 New Scarbro 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 New Scarbro compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Scarbro and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Scarbro is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eccleshill	97
2	Armley	96
3	Bramley & Stanningley	90
4	Kirkstall	90
5	Bradford Moor	90
6	Farnley & Wortley	87
7	Hunslet & Riverside	83
8	Headingley & Hyde Park	77
9	Pudsey	77
10	Weetwood	71
11	Adel & Wharfedale	44

Which road in New Scarbro has the highest level of crime?

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