Total Crime Rate
255.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
44.4 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Ashleigh Street area has the 14th highest crime rate of 120 local areas in Keighley Central , and the 183rd highest crime rate of 1,552 local areas in Bradford .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Ashleigh Street (BD21 3BL) in the last 12 months was 255.1 per 1,000 residents and was 28.6% higher than the Keighley Central average (198.3 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 88 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -38.5% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 24 (≈ 44.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -11.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 119.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Ashleigh Street (BD21 3BL), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Shopping Area, where police recorded 115 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Earl Street (19 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shopping Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Darley Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Back Trinity Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Back Trinity Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Flasby Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Thorpe Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Back Otterburn Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Strawberry Fields | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Earl Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Darley Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lund Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sandywood Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Royd Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sand Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
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