Crime Statistics for Lawnswood, Leeds, Leeds, 2025

Is Lawnswood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 306 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 Lawnswood, 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	159
Vehicle Crime	55
Other Theft	18
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Public Order	15
Burglary	10
Other Crime	9
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Drugs	4
Robbery	2
Shoplifting	2
All Crime	306

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 Lawnswood. 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 Lawnswood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Horsforth (1.24 miles)	308
Lawnswood	286
Cragg Hill (1.39 miles)	226
Horsforth Woodside (1.39 miles)	226
Tinshill (0.88 miles)	224
Meanwood (1.39 miles)	214
Ireland Wood	207
Cookridge (1.39 miles)	123
Holt Park (1.24 miles)	120
Adel (0.88 miles)	99

Where are the most violent places near Lawnswood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Horsforth	167
Lawnswood	159
Horsforth Woodside	113
Tinshill	104
Meanwood	100
Ireland Wood	94
Cragg Hill	92
Cookridge	57
Holt Park	53
Adel	42

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

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 Lawnswood 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 Lawnswood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lawnswood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lawnswood is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bramley & Stanningley	90
2	Kirkstall	90
3	Farnley & Wortley	87
4	Chapel Allerton	86
5	Headingley & Hyde Park	77
6	Weetwood	71
7	Roundhay	66
8	Moortown	59
9	Alwoodley	49
10	Otley & Yeadon	46
11	Adel & Wharfedale	44

Which road in Lawnswood has the highest level of crime?

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