Crime Statistics for Oakwood, Leeds, Leeds, 2024

Crime statistics for Oakwood, Leeds

There were a total of 712 street level crime incidents in Oakwood in January 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 Oakwood, 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 Crime288
Public Order57
Criminal Damage Arson53
Drugs52
Vehicle Crime46
Other Theft41
Anti Social Behaviour37
Burglary34
Other Crime30
Robbery24
Shoplifting23
Possession Of Weapons11
Theft From The Person10
Bicycle Theft6
All Crime712

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 Oakwood. 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 Oakwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Burmantofts (1.24 miles)913
Harehills (1.24 miles)913
Fearnville (0.88 miles)818
Oakwood712
Hollin Park (0.62 miles)591
Beechwood (1.24 miles)536
Potternewton (1.24 miles)425
Lady Wood (0.88 miles)259
Roundhay (0.88 miles)259
Park Villas (1.24 miles)168

33.18%
of Burmantofts & Richmond Hill residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Oakwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Burmantofts394
Harehills394
Fearnville325
Oakwood288
Hollin Park236
Beechwood221
Potternewton164
Lady Wood80
Roundhay80
Park Villas60

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

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 Oakwood 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 Oakwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Killingbeck & Seacroft97
2Gipton & Harehills96
3Burmantofts & Richmond Hill91
4Beeston & Holbeck88
5Chapel Allerton86
6Hunslet & Riverside83
7Little London & Woodhouse81
8Headingley & Hyde Park77
9Temple Newsam77
10Cross Gates & Whinmoor74
11Roundhay66

Which road in Oakwood has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Oakwood with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around St Stephen's Road.

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