Crime Statistics for Royds Green, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Royds Green in October 2024. There were a total of 78 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Royds Green, 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	44
Other Crime	12
Burglary	8
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Drugs	4
Public Order	4
All Crime	78

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Royds Green. 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 Royds Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rothwell Haigh (1.39 miles)	254
Lofthouse (1.39 miles)	158
Altofts (2.24 miles)	151
Lower Altofts (2.24 miles)	137
Rothwell (1.39 miles)	127
John O’Gaunts (1.86 miles)	121
Lofthouse Gate (1.75 miles)	98
Carlton (1.39 miles)	69
Bottom Boat (1.24 miles)	59
Royds Green	40

Where are the most violent places near Royds Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rothwell Haigh	168
Lofthouse	140
Altofts	59
Royds Green	44
Rothwell	42
John O’Gaunts	42
Lofthouse Gate	40
Lower Altofts	36
Bottom Boat	33
Carlton	30

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

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 Royds Green 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 Royds Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Royds Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Royds Green is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Middleton Park	89
2	Wakefield West	80
3	Wakefield East	80
4	Wakefield North	78
5	Normanton	74
6	Wakefield South	67
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 Royds Green has the highest level of crime?

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