Crime Statistics for Horsforth, Leeds, Leeds, 2025

Is Horsforth rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 381 incidents. 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 Horsforth, 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	167
Vehicle Crime	66
Burglary	28
Public Order	20
Shoplifting	18
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Other Theft	18
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	8
Drugs	8
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	381

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Horsforth	308
Lawnswood (1.24 miles)	286
Cragg Hill (0.62 miles)	285
Horsforth Woodside (0.62 miles)	226
Tinshill (0.88 miles)	224
Ireland Wood (1.24 miles)	207
Cookridge (1.39 miles)	138
Holt Park (1.75 miles)	120
Lane Ends (1.39 miles)	78
Rawdon Carrs (1.86 miles)	49

Where are the most violent places near Horsforth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Horsforth	167
Lawnswood	159
Cragg Hill	134
Horsforth Woodside	113
Tinshill	104
Ireland Wood	94
Cookridge	70
Lane Ends	70
Holt Park	53
Rawdon Carrs	25

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

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 Horsforth 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 Horsforth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Horsforth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Horsforth is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eccleshill	97
2	Bramley & Stanningley	90
3	Kirkstall	90
4	Weetwood	71
5	Calverley & Farsley	63
6	Moortown	59
7	Guiseley & Rawdon	53
8	Horsforth	51
9	Alwoodley	49
10	Otley & Yeadon	46
11	Adel & Wharfedale	44

Which road in Horsforth has the highest level of crime?

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