Crime Statistics for New Farnley, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

Crime statistics for New Farnley, Leeds

There were a total of 30 street level crime incidents in New Farnley 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 New Farnley, 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 Crime17
Vehicle Crime4
Shoplifting4
Other Crime2
Public Order1
Robbery1
Drugs1
All Crime30

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 New Farnley. 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 New Farnley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Farnley (0.88 miles)186
Far Royds (1.24 miles)148
Swinnow Moor (1.39 miles)139
Beeston Royds (1.39 miles)92
Fulneck (1.39 miles)75
Gildersome (1.24 miles)67
Moor Head (1.24 miles)67
Cockersdale (1.39 miles)55
Tong (1.39 miles)32
New Farnley30

10.77%
of Farnley & Wortley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Farnley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Farnley88
Far Royds63
Swinnow Moor57
Beeston Royds50
Gildersome32
Moor Head32
Fulneck26
Cockersdale21
New Farnley17
Tong5

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

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 New Farnley 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 New Farnley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Armley96
2Tong95
3Bramley & Stanningley90
4Kirkstall90
5Beeston & Holbeck88
6Farnley & Wortley87
7Hunslet & Riverside83
8Pudsey77
9Birstall and Birkenshaw73
10Morley South65
11Morley North64

Which road in New Farnley has the highest level of crime?

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

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