Placed an offer an our first house - how do we check crime rates?

katiee1994

Hey everyone. 

Would really appreciate some help.

Myself and my partner have put an offer in for our first house and I’ve been trying to check crime rates in the local area. However I can see some statistics but I can’t work out whether this is worrying or just normal as I’ve never looked at these before. I’m assuming some rates of crime is expected. 

Can anyone help me with this? Or can you recommend somewhere I can look to find this out or someone I can ask?

The street is Montagu Place, Oakwood, Leeds.

Thanks in advance! 

caw379

https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/

ImThatGuy

I looked at it for my parents area where I grew up. Lovely Cornish town that nice and quiet and most of the time the only siren you hear is an ambulance going to the local nursing home. Looking at the crime rates for the area you would think it was a city. 

For drugs it could be a 16 year old having a spliff up the park with his mates or England's answer to a Mexican drug cartel. A domestic incident could be two drunks arguing over split milk or something more sinister. Take a drive around the area at different times of the day, different days of the week. You'll get a feel for the area.

Or if you see the local police walking around, stop and ask them. I'm sure they wouldn't mind as long as you're nice about it. 

Mojisola

ImThatGuy said:

I looked at it for my parents area where I grew up. Lovely Cornish town that nice and quiet and most of the time the only siren you hear is an ambulance going to the local nursing home. Looking at the crime rates for the area you would think it was a city.

The report for the area we live in also bares no resemblance to our personal experience.

Definitely worth checking out the area and talking to the local shopkeepers, etc.

Slithery

What did the neighbours have to say when you spoke to them?

Lurkingtoposting17

I live in an area where the crime report says high crime because we are close to a rail station and there’s lots of bike thefts from there. 
Nothing happens in the surrounding houses though, quiet as anything. Meanwhile in the fancy pants low crime new build estate my first flat was in someone was shot outside my house. 

I wouldn’t personally therefore read much into crime statistics ! 

blue_max_3

The more money you have, the less you have to rub shoulders with the great unwashed. If you have nothing, nobody can take it off you!

dani17

this may be intresting.
http://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/idmap.html

Davesnave

Shocked to find there were 5 crimes in our postcode in April: theft, violence/sexual, criminal damage and antisocial offences....all in a field hundreds of metres from anyone's house. It'll  be those badgers again!

blue_max_3

Are you wondering how much competition you'll have? 

macman

Slithery said:

What did the neighbours have to say when you spoke to them?

They wouldn't answer the door, thought the OP was a mugger...