Total Crime Rate
10.4 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
3.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Rydal Road area has the 8th lowest crime rate of 58 local areas in Fairfax & Starbeck , and the 189th lowest crime rate of 2,067 local areas in North Yorkshire .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Rydal Road (HG1 4SD) in the last 12 months was 10.4 per 1,000 residents and was 90.1% lower than the Fairfax & Starbeck average (105.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 2 offences recorded. The least common crime was Violent crimes with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Public order ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 1 (≈ 3.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 100.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -68.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Rydal Road (HG1 4SD), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Leyland Road, where police recorded 51 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near On or near (25 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In High Harrogate & Kingsley| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Under investigation | |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Leyland Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stanhope Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Under investigation | |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | — | |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | St Andrew'S Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Leyland Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Leyland Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Rydal Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Swarcliffe Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Stanhope Drive | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Stanhope Drive | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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