Crime Statistics for Oakwood, Leeds, Leeds, November 2020

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Oakwood using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so February 2021 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 691 street level crime incidents in Oakwood in February 2021. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	260
Public Order	81
Anti Social Behaviour	79
Other Theft	52
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Drugs	38
Burglary	33
Vehicle Crime	32
Other Crime	22
Shoplifting	20
Robbery	15
Theft From The Person	10
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	691

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2021

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.

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.

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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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Harehills (1.24 miles)	841
Burmantofts (1.24 miles)	841
Fearnville (0.88 miles)	782
Oakwood	691
Hollin Park (0.62 miles)	621
Beechwood (1.24 miles)	461
Potternewton (1.24 miles)	429
Lady Wood (0.88 miles)	239
Roundhay (0.88 miles)	239
Park Villas (1.24 miles)	126

11.4%
of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

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.