How neighbourhoods moved each quarter
2023
Whole-area crime rate 19.7 to 22.0 per 1,000 (high: Q1 2023).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Mount Pleasant 14th→5th (Q2)
Kippax 15th→11th (Q2)
Wellington Hill 8th→12th (Q2)
Micklefield 9th→14th (Q2)
Whinmoor 10th→5th (Q3)
Wellington Hill 12th→6th (Q3)
Sandhills 1st→15th (Q3)
Mount Pleasant 5th→16th (Q3)
Mount Pleasant 16th→1st (Q4)
Sandhills 15th→2nd (Q4)
Thorner 2nd→10th (Q4)
Whinmoor 5th→11th (Q4)
Wellington Hill 6th→12th (Q4)
Micklefield 11th→15th (Q4)
Scholes 12th→18th (Q4)
2024
Whole-area crime rate 19.0 to 20.4 per 1,000 (high: Q1 2024).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Barwick in Elmet 6th→2nd (Q1)
Mount Pleasant 1st→6th (Q1)
Kippax 9th→13th (Q1)
Thorner 10th→3rd (Q2)
Wellington Hill 11th→5th (Q2)
Arthursdale 1st→7th (Q2)
Scholes 17th→8th (Q2)
Woodend 15th→11th (Q2)
Whinmoor 8th→12th (Q2)
Micklefield 18th→14th (Q2)
Woodlesford 9th→15th (Q2)
Kippax 13th→17th (Q2)
Arthursdale 7th→1st (Q3)
Woodend 11th→7th (Q3)
Woodlesford 15th→9th (Q3)
Wellington Hill 5th→12th (Q3)
Scholes 8th→16th (Q3)
Aberford 5th→1st (Q4)
Thorner 6th→2nd (Q4)
Mount Pleasant 11th→4th (Q4)
Wellington Hill 12th→6th (Q4)
East Garforth 3rd→7th (Q4)
Scholes 16th→8th (Q4)
Sandhills 2nd→14th (Q4)
Woodlesford 9th→15th (Q4)
Woodend 7th→17th (Q4)
2025
Whole-area crime rate 20.1 to 21.6 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Sandhills 14th→6th (Q1)
Woodend 17th→9th (Q1)
Wellington Hill 6th→13th (Q1)
Micklefield 10th→16th (Q1)
Scholes 8th→18th (Q1)
Woodlesford 12th→4th (Q2)
Kippax 14th→10th (Q2)
Scholes 18th→13th (Q2)
Mount Pleasant 1st→18th (Q2)
Barwick in Elmet 6th→1st (Q3)
Woodend 12th→3rd (Q3)
Aberford 1st→5th (Q3)
Mount Pleasant 18th→8th (Q3)
Woodlesford 4th→9th (Q3)
Scholes 13th→17th (Q3)
Sandhills 7th→18th (Q3)
Whinmoor 7th→3rd (Q4)
Barwick in Elmet 1st→7th (Q4)
Micklefield 14th→10th (Q4)
Sandhills 18th→11th (Q4)
Mount Pleasant 8th→12th (Q4)
Woodlesford 9th→13th (Q4)
2026
Whole-area crime rate 19.3 to 21.4 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Scholes 18th→1st (Q1)
Sandhills 11th→2nd (Q1)
Mount Pleasant 12th→6th (Q1)
Whinmoor 3rd→7th (Q1)
Aberford 2nd→8th (Q1)
East Garforth 5th→9th (Q1)
Wellington Hill 14th→10th (Q1)
Kippax 8th→12th (Q1)
Woodend 4th→13th (Q1)
Great Preston 9th→14th (Q1)
Micklefield 10th→15th (Q1)
Aberford 8th→2nd (Q2)
Sandhills 2nd→8th (Q2)
Woodend 13th→9th (Q2)
Garforth 16th→12th (Q2)
Scholes 1st→18th (Q2)
Reported Safety Incidents
In Q2 2026: violent incidents were 41% (638), property incidents were 31% (490), public order incidents were 24% (368) and vehicle crimes were 4% (62).
Recorded crime here is grouped into violent crime, property crime (burglary and theft), vehicle crime and public order offences, so you can compare how safe each neighbourhood is for the kind of crime that matters to you.
Places we left out, and places to read with care
Left out: Kiddal Lane End; Lotherton; Mickletown; Potterton; Scarcroft. They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.
Sandhills (16.9 per 1,000 from 4 crimes among 237 residents), Scholes (41.2 per 1,000 from 11 crimes among 267 residents), Mount Pleasant (15.2 per 1,000 from 8 crimes among 526 residents), Arthursdale (10.9 per 1,000 from 7 crimes among 639 residents), Kippax (25.3 per 1,000 from 18 crimes among 711 residents), Wellington Hill (21.1 per 1,000 from 19 crimes among 899 residents), Thorner (3.6 per 1,000 from 5 crimes among 1,404 residents), Aberford (5.7 per 1,000 from 10 crimes among 1,741 residents), Seacroft (32.0 per 1,000 from 56 crimes among 1,749 residents), Whinmoor (10.7 per 1,000 from 20 crimes among 1,878 residents), Great Preston (26.5 per 1,000 from 50 crimes among 1,889 residents), Woodend (16.9 per 1,000 from 35 crimes among 2,070 residents) and Barwick in Elmet (7.6 per 1,000 from 20 crimes among 2,637 residents) are places with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so they are not named as the lowest or highest.








