Ward safety · Leeds · data through August 2026

How safe is your Leeds ward?

SafeRoute scores every Leeds ward 0–100 from street-level incidents reported to West Yorkshire Police — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each ward's centre, normalised against Leeds. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

These figures describe reported crime around each ward's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Leeds median index: 55/100.

All 33 Leeds wards, safest first

Methodology

Each street-level incident published by West Yorkshire Police is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre, and normalise against Leeds's own rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the 33 Leeds City Council wards from the ONS ward set. The scale is calibrated to Leeds and cannot be read against another city's number — a Leeds 55 and a London 55 both mean “typical for this city”, not the same amount of crime. Leeds wards are large by British standards — the council area is 552 km², so an outer ward can span a town, a village and several miles of farmland — and this index describes the kilometre around each ward's centre rather than the whole ward. Where the published centre sat in open country rather than in the built-up part of a ward, it has been moved onto the town or village the ward is named for. data.police.uk publishes one calendar month at a time, so these pages describe a single month rather than a year, and small differences between neighbouring wards are not meaningful. data.police.uk does not publish incident times, so time-of-day patterns are not shown. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares areas within Leeds. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Leeds's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.