Crime in Leeds
Thinking about Leeds? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try york, manchester, sheffield too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Leeds centre
1,493crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 381
- Shoplifting 320
- Anti-social behaviour 122
- Vehicle crime 116
- 10 other categories 554
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences381
- Shoplifting320
- Anti-social behaviour122
- Vehicle crime116
- Public order112
- Other theft98
- Criminal damage & arson76
- Burglary68
- Drugs62
- Robbery42
- Theft from the person25
- Bicycle theft24
- Other crime24
- Possession of weapons23
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Leeds. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Leeds a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Leeds for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Leeds crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Leeds?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Leeds. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.