How neighbourhoods moved each quarter
2023
Whole-area crime rate 28.4 to 31.7 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2023).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Roker Lane Bottom 9th→4th (Q2)
Troydale 14th→10th (Q2)
Upper Moor Side 7th→13th (Q2)
Upper Moor Side 13th→8th (Q3)
Roker Lane Bottom 4th→9th (Q3)
Troydale 11th→15th (Q4)
2024
Whole-area crime rate 27.3 to 32.4 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2024).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Moor Head 1st→7th (Q1)
Troydale 15th→11th (Q1)
Headingley 11th→15th (Q1)
Moor Head 7th→3rd (Q2)
Headingley 15th→11th (Q2)
Upper Moor Side 3rd→15th (Q2)
Hough End 1st→5th (Q3)
Upper Moor Side 15th→6th (Q3)
Adwalton 2nd→7th (Q3)
Roker Lane Bottom 7th→14th (Q3)
Upper Moor Side 6th→2nd (Q4)
Apperley Bridge 3rd→7th (Q4)
Roker Lane Bottom 14th→9th (Q4)
Farnley 10th→15th (Q4)
2025
Whole-area crime rate 26.0 to 31.1 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2025).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Adwalton 6th→2nd (Q1)
Roker Lane Bottom 9th→13th (Q1)
Roker Lane Bottom 13th→4th (Q2)
Adwalton 2nd→6th (Q2)
Upper Moor Side 1st→9th (Q2)
Upper Moor Side 9th→3rd (Q3)
Troydale 12th→7th (Q3)
Roker Lane Bottom 4th→12th (Q3)
Roker Lane Bottom 12th→8th (Q4)
Troydale 7th→13th (Q4)
2026
Whole-area crime rate 23.9 to 26.2 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Roker Lane Bottom 8th→12th (Q1)
Troydale 13th→6th (Q2)
Adwalton 3rd→13th (Q2)
Reported Safety Incidents
In Q2 2026: violent incidents were 43% (1,336), property incidents were 27% (839), public order incidents were 25% (785) and vehicle crimes were 5% (165).
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: Cockersdale; Fulneck; Gamble Hill; Littlemoor Bottom; New Farnley. They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.
Roker Lane Bottom (28.2 per 1,000 from 4 crimes among 142 residents), Upper Moor Side (9.4 per 1,000 from 2 crimes among 212 residents), Troydale (23.7 per 1,000 from 7 crimes among 295 residents), Hough End (3.3 per 1,000 from 1 crime among 307 residents), Adwalton (35.5 per 1,000 from 11 crimes among 310 residents), Moor Head (2.6 per 1,000 from 1 crime among 379 residents), Nethertown (2.0 per 1,000 from 1 crime among 505 residents), Farnley (42.1 per 1,000 from 42 crimes among 997 residents), Park Spring (33.4 per 1,000 from 52 crimes among 1,556 residents) and Apperley Bridge (20.5 per 1,000 from 36 crimes among 1,753 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.








