Crime Statistics for Oatlands, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oatlands in August 2024. There were a total of 46 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 Oatlands, 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	21
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Public Order	5
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Shoplifting	2
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	46

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Harrogate (1.24 miles)	540
High Harrogate (1.39 miles)	337
Harlow Hill (1.39 miles)	57
Oatlands	46
Harlow Carr (1.39 miles)	31
Burn Bridge (1.24 miles)	11
Pannal Ash (0.88 miles)	8
Spacey Houses (1.39 miles)	5
Pannal (1.24 miles)	5
Beckwith (1.39 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Oatlands?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harrogate	149
High Harrogate	98
Harlow Hill	27
Oatlands	21
Harlow Carr	17
Pannal Ash	6
Spacey Houses	4
Pannal	3
Beckwith	1
Burn Bridge	0

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

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 Oatlands 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 Oatlands compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Oatlands and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Oatlands have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Harrogate Central.

#	Ward	Score
1	Harrogate Central	46
2	Harrogate Kingsley	41
3	Harrogate Valley Gardens	34
4	Harrogate Coppice Valley	32
5	Harrogate Stray	13
6	Harrogate Duchy	12
7	Harrogate Oatlands	5
8	Harrogate St Georges	5
9	Harrogate Harlow	5
10	Killinghall & Hampsthwaite	4
11	Harrogate Pannal	1

Which road in Oatlands has the highest level of crime?

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