Crime Statistics for Layerthorpe, York, York, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Layerthorpe in September 2024. There were a total of 732 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	196
Violent Crime	182
Shoplifting	118
Bicycle Theft	43
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Other Theft	40
Public Order	34
Burglary	32
Vehicle Crime	15
Drugs	13
Robbery	6
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	5
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	732

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 Layerthorpe. 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 Layerthorpe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heworth (0.62 miles)	818
Layerthorpe	732
Tang Hall (0.88 miles)	648
York (1.24 miles)	561
Foss (0.19 miles)	542
Walmgate Stray (0.62 miles)	216
South Bank (1.39 miles)	167
Heslington (0.88 miles)	97
Nunthorpe (1.75 miles)	65
Fulford (1.24 miles)	56

Where are the most violent places near Layerthorpe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tang Hall	361
Foss	293
Heworth	221
Layerthorpe	182
York	165
Walmgate Stray	60
South Bank	53
Heslington	25
Fulford	13
Nunthorpe	9

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

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 Layerthorpe 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 Layerthorpe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Layerthorpe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Layerthorpe is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Westfield	60
2	Guildhall	46
3	Clifton	42
4	Micklegate	39
5	Holgate	33
6	Heworth	31
7	Hull Road	20
8	Fishergate	14
9	Heworth Without	5
10	Fulford & Heslington	2
11	Wheldrake	2

Which road in Layerthorpe has the highest level of crime?

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