Crime Statistics for Cross Green, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

Crime statistics for Cross Green, Leeds

There were a total of 260 street level crime incidents in Cross Green in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cross 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime120
Vehicle Crime32
Criminal Damage Arson22
Burglary20
Other Theft16
Anti Social Behaviour15
Public Order14
Drugs6
Shoplifting5
Robbery3
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons2
Theft From The Person1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime260

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cross Green. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Cross Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Sheepscar (1.39 miles)1630
Little London (1.75 miles)1427
Burmantofts (1.24 miles)913
Harehills (1.24 miles)913
Killingbeck (1.39 miles)693
Knowsthorpe (0.62 miles)642
Cross Green260
Halton (1.39 miles)239
Halton Moor (1.39 miles)239
Stourton (1.24 miles)198

15.4%
of Middleton Park residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cross Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Sheepscar540
Burmantofts394
Harehills394
Little London381
Killingbeck291
Knowsthorpe244
Cross Green120
Stourton96
Halton83
Halton Moor83

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

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cross Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Cross Green is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Gipton & Harehills96
2Armley96
3Burmantofts & Richmond Hill91
4Middleton Park89
5Beeston & Holbeck88
6Chapel Allerton86
7Hunslet & Riverside83
8Little London & Woodhouse81
9Headingley & Hyde Park77
10Rothwell66
11Garforth & Swillington39

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

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

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