Crime Statistics for Rothwell, Leeds, Leeds, 2025

Is Rothwell rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 119 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rothwell, 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	65
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Other Theft	12
Public Order	8
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Other Crime	4
Burglary	3
Robbery	2
Shoplifting	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	119

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 Rothwell. 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 Rothwell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
John O’Gaunts (0.88 miles)	205
Belle Isle (1.96 miles)	190
Stourton (1.75 miles)	156
Lofthouse (1.96 miles)	116
Rothwell	98
Rothwell Haigh	98
Lofthouse Gate (2.56 miles)	97
Newsam Green (1.76 miles)	68
Carlton (0.88 miles)	52
Royds Green (1.39 miles)	19

Where are the most violent places near Rothwell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
John O’Gaunts	104
Belle Isle	99
Stourton	79
Rothwell	65
Lofthouse Gate	56
Rothwell Haigh	50
Lofthouse	45
Newsam Green	27
Carlton	22
Royds Green	13

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

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 Rothwell 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 Rothwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rothwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rothwell is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burmantofts & Richmond Hill	91
2	Middleton Park	89
3	Beeston & Holbeck	88
4	Hunslet & Riverside	83
5	Little London & Woodhouse	81
6	Temple Newsam	77
7	Rothwell	66
8	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62
9	Stanley and Outwood East	50
10	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49
11	Garforth & Swillington	39

Which road in Rothwell has the highest level of crime?

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