Crime Statistics for Sandhills, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandhills in October 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour5
Violent Crime4
Criminal Damage Arson1
Shoplifting1
All Crime11

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 Sandhills. 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 Sandhills

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Arthursdale (1.24 miles)455
Pendas Fields (2.48 miles)284
Monkswood (2.24 miles)276
Cock Beck (0.79 miles)115
Shadwell (1.86 miles)53
Barwick-in-Elmet (1.75 miles)13
Sandhills11
Bardsey (2.56 miles)7
Barnbow Carr (2.24 miles)5
Kiddal Lane End (1.86 miles)2

5.55%
of Harewood (Leeds) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sandhills?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Arthursdale151
Monkswood125
Cock Beck81
Pendas Fields79
Shadwell20
Barwick-in-Elmet6
Sandhills4
Barnbow Carr3
Bardsey2
Kiddal Lane End0

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

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 Sandhills 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 Sandhills compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Killingbeck & Seacroft97
2Gipton & Harehills96
3Burmantofts & Richmond Hill91
4Chapel Allerton86
5Headingley & Hyde Park77
6Temple Newsam77
7Cross Gates & Whinmoor74
8Roundhay66
9Kippax & Methley50
10Harewood44
11Garforth & Swillington39

Which road in Sandhills has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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