Crime Statistics for Forest Moor, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Forest Moor in September 2024. There were a total of 27 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 Forest Moor, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime8
Anti Social Behaviour7
Shoplifting3
Public Order3
Criminal Damage Arson2
Vehicle Crime2
Other Theft1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime27

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 Forest Moor. 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 Forest Moor

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

LocationCrime Incidents
High Harrogate (1.86 miles)485
Harrogate (2.48 miles)248
Bilton (2.77 miles)136
Forest Lane Head (0.88 miles)112
Knaresborough (1.39 miles)107
Calcutt49
Oatlands (2.77 miles)49
Forest Moor27
Spofforth (2.78 miles)2
Little Ribston (2.77 miles)0

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Where are the most violent places near Forest Moor?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
High Harrogate161
Bilton114
Harrogate73
Knaresborough41
Forest Lane Head38
Calcutt13
Oatlands10
Forest Moor8
Spofforth0
Little Ribston0

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

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 Forest Moor 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 Forest Moor compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Forest Moor and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Forest Moor is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Harrogate Kingsley41
2Harrogate Fairfax41
3Harrogate Starbeck36
4Harrogate High Harrogate30
5Knaresborough Castle17
6Harrogate Hookstone15
7Harrogate Stray13
8Knaresborough Aspin & Calcutt13
9Knaresborough Eastfield10
10Knaresborough Scriven Park6
11Harrogate Oatlands5

Which road in Forest Moor has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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