How neighbourhoods moved each quarter
2023
Whole-area crime rate 48.3 to 50.0 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2023).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Lady Wood 7th→20th (Q2)
Osmondthorpe 17th→10th (Q3)
Gipton 15th→11th (Q3)
Harehills Corner 9th→13th (Q3)
Lady Wood 20th→15th (Q3)
Cottingley 13th→17th (Q3)
Kirkstall Forge 12th→19th (Q3)
Middleton 12th→5th (Q4)
Headingley 3rd→7th (Q4)
Harehills Corner 13th→9th (Q4)
Lady Wood 15th→10th (Q4)
Fearnville 20th→13th (Q4)
Kirkstall Forge 19th→15th (Q4)
Cross Gates 8th→16th (Q4)
Osmondthorpe 10th→20th (Q4)
2024
Whole-area crime rate 43.8 to 47.8 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2024).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Hollin Park 8th→2nd (Q1)
Gipton 11th→4th (Q1)
Potternewton 4th→9th (Q1)
Oakwood 3rd→11th (Q1)
Cottingley 18th→14th (Q1)
Harehills 19th→15th (Q1)
Kirkstall Forge 15th→20th (Q1)
Fearnville 13th→21st (Q1)
Oakwood 11th→3rd (Q2)
Cross Gates 13th→9th (Q2)
Gipton 4th→12th (Q2)
Lady Wood 7th→13th (Q2)
Gipton 12th→8th (Q3)
Woodhouse Hill 16th→11th (Q3)
Potternewton 7th→13th (Q3)
Lady Wood 13th→18th (Q3)
Gipton 8th→4th (Q4)
Cross Gates 12th→7th (Q4)
Gipton Wood 5th→9th (Q4)
Lady Wood 18th→12th (Q4)
Harehills Corner 10th→14th (Q4)
Morley 21st→15th (Q4)
Potternewton 13th→18th (Q4)
2025
Whole-area crime rate 42.5 to 46.5 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Gipton Wood 9th→4th (Q1)
Potternewton 18th→7th (Q1)
Gipton 4th→9th (Q1)
Cross Gates 7th→11th (Q1)
Kirkstall Forge 16th→12th (Q1)
Woodhouse Hill 11th→16th (Q1)
Hunslet Carr 13th→17th (Q1)
Fearnville 22nd→18th (Q1)
Morley 15th→22nd (Q1)
Gipton 9th→4th (Q2)
Gipton Wood 4th→8th (Q2)
Osmondthorpe 19th→11th (Q2)
Woodhouse Hill 16th→12th (Q2)
Potternewton 7th→13th (Q2)
Lady Wood 13th→17th (Q2)
Potternewton 13th→5th (Q3)
Lady Wood 17th→7th (Q3)
Gipton 4th→10th (Q3)
Oakwood 6th→11th (Q3)
Cottingley 16th→12th (Q3)
Cross Gates 10th→16th (Q3)
Gipton 10th→5th (Q4)
Potternewton 5th→11th (Q4)
Cross Gates 16th→12th (Q4)
Harehills Corner 18th→13th (Q4)
Cottingley 12th→16th (Q4)
Osmondthorpe 14th→18th (Q4)
Woodhouse Hill 13th→19th (Q4)
2026
Whole-area crime rate 42.1 to 45.6 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Woodhouse Hill 19th→15th (Q1)
Lady Wood 6th→17th (Q1)
Potternewton 10th→5th (Q2)
Gipton 3rd→7th (Q2)
Lady Wood 17th→11th (Q2)
Burley Park 8th→12th (Q2)
Harehills Corner 11th→15th (Q2)
Morley 22nd→16th (Q2)
Reported Safety Incidents
In Q2 2026: violent incidents were 38% (5,033), property incidents were 34% (4,470), public order incidents were 23% (3,027) and vehicle crimes were 6% (762).
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: Bantam Grove; The Oval. They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.
Beechwood (132.3 per 1,000 from 25 crimes among 189 residents), Fearnville (88.3 per 1,000 from 28 crimes among 317 residents), Scott Hall (3.4 per 1,000 from 2 crimes among 594 residents), Morley (39.7 per 1,000 from 31 crimes among 781 residents), Lady Wood (33.6 per 1,000 from 35 crimes among 1,042 residents), Osmondthorpe (53.6 per 1,000 from 65 crimes among 1,212 residents), Hunslet Carr (45.9 per 1,000 from 120 crimes among 2,612 residents) and Potternewton (26.9 per 1,000 from 80 crimes among 2,978 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.








