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
1,420crimes recorded in July 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 420
- Shoplifting 298
- Anti-social behaviour 125
- Public order 113
- 10 other categories 464
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences420
- Shoplifting298
- Anti-social behaviour125
- Public order113
- Other theft111
- Drugs75
- Burglary53
- Criminal damage & arson46
- Robbery42
- Theft from the person34
- Other crime33
- Vehicle crime30
- Bicycle theft28
- Possession of weapons12
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.