LISTED: The top 10 most burgled areas in Leeds revealed

The top 10 burglary hotspots in Leeds - the areas with the most reports of burglaries at houses - have been revealed.
Burglary: how does your area compare?Burglary: how does your area compare?
Burglary: how does your area compare?

The latest in the Yorkshire Evening Post's crime hotspots web series, every day we're shining a light on a different type of crime, according to the official police statistics for the city.

A Freedom of Information Act request submitted to West Yorkshire Police by the Yorkshire Evening Post has revealed the 10 policing wards with the most reports of house burglaries between April 1 2016 and March 31 2017, the most recent full year of figures available.

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The figures are broken down into 'policing wards' - these are the areas which police classify and use to divide resources and manage crime.

We also broke down the figures for all crimes overall - see here.

How does your area compare? See below for the top 10 and the full burglary figures for every area.

Top 10

Hyde Park and Woodhouse - 303

Killingback and Seacroft - 290

Armley - 289

Kirkstall - 278

Chapel Allerton - 254

Burmantofts and Richmond HIll - 243

Gipton and Harehills - 240

Headingley - 236

Beeston and Holbeck - 220

Farnley and Wortley - 196

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The burglary figures for every ward in full

Adel - 87

Alwoodley - 153

Ardsley and Robin Hood - 78

Armley - 289

Beeston and Holbeck - 220

Bramley and Stanningley - 142

Burmantofts and Richmond HIll - 243

Calverley and Farsley - 148

Chapel Allerton - 254

City and Hunslet A - 41

City and Hunslet B - 184

Crossgates and Whinmoor Road- 170

Farnley and Wortley - 196

Garforth and Swillington - 74

Gipton and Harehills - 240

Guiseley and Rawdon - 137

Harewood - 85

Headingley - 236

Horsforth - 146

Hyde Park and Woodhouse - 303

Killingback and Seacroft - 290

Kippax and Methley - 67

Kirkstall - 278

Middleton Park - 147

Moortown - 188

Morley North - 173

Morley South - 82

Otley and Yeadon - 67

Pudsey Ward - 130

Rothwell - 105

Roundhay - 172

Temple Newsam - 152

Weetwood - 158

Wetherby - 54