Crime Statistics for Upper Green, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Upper Green in September 2024. There were a total of 79 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 Upper 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	30
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Public Order	11
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	4
Other Theft	2
All Crime	79

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 Upper 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 Upper Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Soothill (1.39 miles)	528
Morley (1.39 miles)	253
Bantam Grove (1.24 miles)	240
Birks (0.88 miles)	97
Topcliffe (0.62 miles)	92
Beggarington Hill (0.62 miles)	83
Upper Green	76
Tingley (0.88 miles)	75
Balna Beck (0.93 miles)	48
Haigh Moor (0.88 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near Upper Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Soothill	448
Morley	84
Bantam Grove	78
Beggarington Hill	47
Birks	35
Tingley	35
Topcliffe	33
Upper Green	30
Balna Beck	17
Haigh Moor	12

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Upper 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 Upper 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 Upper Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Upper Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Upper Green is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Batley West	88
3	Dewsbury East	81
4	Heckmondwike	81
5	Batley East	76
6	Birstall and Birkenshaw	73
7	Morley South	65
8	Ossett	63
9	Dewsbury South	63
10	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Upper Green has the highest level of crime?

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