Total Crime Rate
128.7 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
77.8 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Powell Road area has the 34th highest crime rate of 107 local areas in Heaton , and the 512th highest crime rate of 1,552 local areas in Bradford .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Powell Road (BD18 1BD) in the last 12 months was 128.7 per 1,000 residents and was 20.7% higher than the Heaton average (106.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 21 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , down -66.7% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Burglary ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other crime ( -66.7% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 26 (≈ 77.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -21.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -68.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Powell Road (BD18 1BD), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Powell Road, where police recorded 25 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Hawthorne Avenue (16 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Windhill and Wrose| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Valley Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gray Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Wyncroft Rise | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Lilac Grove | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shann Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hawthorne Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hawthorne Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wrose Drive | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Powell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Powell Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Festival Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Festival Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Festival Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wyncroft Rise | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gray Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wyncroft Rise | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Gray Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Gray Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Valley Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Thornhill Drive | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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