Crime Statistics for Jaw Hill, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

There were a total of 14 street level crime incidents in Jaw Hill in February 2024. 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 Jaw Hill, 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	6
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Burglary	2
Public Order	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	14

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Alverthorpe (1.75 miles)	394
Gawthorpe (1.39 miles)	164
Beggarington Hill (1.39 miles)	61
The Fall (1.39 miles)	61
Lawns (1.39 miles)	51
Carr Gate (1.39 miles)	51
Haigh Moor (0.88 miles)	35
Balna Beck (0.84 miles)	34
Beck Bottom (0.62 miles)	27
Jaw Hill	14

Where are the most violent places near Jaw Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Alverthorpe	144
Gawthorpe	67
Beggarington Hill	23
Lawns	22
Carr Gate	22
The Fall	19
Balna Beck	16
Haigh Moor	15
Beck Bottom	10
Jaw Hill	6

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

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 Jaw Hill 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 Jaw Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dewsbury West	89
2	Dewsbury East	81
3	Wakefield West	80
4	Wakefield East	80
5	Wakefield North	78
6	Batley East	76
7	Morley South	65
8	Ossett	63
9	Dewsbury South	63
10	Ardsley & Robin Hood	62
11	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	49

Which road in Jaw Hill has the highest level of crime?

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