Crime Statistics for Ledston, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

There were a total of 10 street level crime incidents in Ledston in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ledston, 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	5
Public Order	2
Other Theft	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	10

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 Ledston. 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 Ledston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Red Hill (1.96 miles)	316
Castleford (1.96 miles)	303
Airedale (2.24 miles)	162
Water Fryston (2.24 miles)	129
Allerton Bywater (0.88 miles)	95
New Fryston (1.39 miles)	90
Aire (1.86 miles)	54
Great Preston (1.96 miles)	49
Lower Mickletown (1.96 miles)	22
Ledston	10

Where are the most violent places near Ledston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Castleford	128
Red Hill	116
Airedale	69
Water Fryston	60
New Fryston	38
Allerton Bywater	33
Aire	29
Great Preston	28
Lower Mickletown	13
Ledston	5

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

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 Ledston 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 Ledston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ledston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Ledston is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Knottingley	90
2	Castleford Central and Glasshoughton	83
3	Pontefract South	76
4	Pontefract North	75
5	Airedale and Ferry Fryston	73
6	Altofts and Whitwood	63
7	Kippax & Methley	50
8	Garforth & Swillington	39
9	Byram & Brotherton	38
10	Sherburn in Elmet	25
11	South Milford	21

Which road in Ledston has the highest level of crime?

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