Crime Statistics for York, North Yorkshire, 2025

Is York rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 535 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in York, 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	187
Anti Social Behaviour	136
Shoplifting	82
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Other Theft	21
Bicycle Theft	19
Public Order	17
Drugs	13
Burglary	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	535

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes York. 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 York

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Layerthorpe (1.24 miles)	1197
Heworth (1.39 miles)	718
Foss (1.05 miles)	637
York	535
Walmgate Stray (1.39 miles)	363
South Bank (0.62 miles)	267
North Yorkshire|Holgate (0.62 miles)	227
Acomb (1.39 miles)	188
Nunthorpe (1.24 miles)	100
Knavesmire (1.39 miles)	97

Where are the most violent places near York?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Layerthorpe	340
Heworth	225
Foss	187
York	187
North Yorkshire|Holgate	124
South Bank	97
Walmgate Stray	86
Acomb	76
Knavesmire	44
Nunthorpe	37

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

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 York 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 York compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to York and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.York is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Westfield	60
2	Guildhall	46
3	Clifton	42
4	Micklegate	39
5	Holgate	33
6	Heworth	31
7	Acomb	29
8	Hull Road	20
9	Dringhouses & Woodthorpe	20
10	Rawcliffe & Clifton Without	18
11	Fishergate	14

Which road in York has the highest level of crime?

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