Violent crime is being spread from the cities into peaceful suburbs, new information from the Home Office has revealed.
Surprisingly it is west Yorkshire that tops the blacklist of the most dangerous places to live in England and Wales with 101.7 victim-based crimes for every 1,000 people.
London only just made it into the top 10 places, despite a series of stabbings that have blighted the capital in 2018 and the police force being cut to its lowest number of officers since 2001.
You are twice more likely to be robbed in the capital city and over the last year more than 19,000 moped attacks happened.
The research looked at where people are at most risk across five victim-based crime categories – violent crime, robbery, sex offences, damage to property and theft of property.
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Assistant Chief Constable Russ Foster of West Yorkshire Police, said budget cuts had put officers on the back foot and had left them unable to deal with violent crime.
He told The Sun: In West Yorkshire we promote a culture of ethical crime recording and have made significant improvements to enhance the integrity of our crime statistics which has influenced an increase in recorded crime.
We as a force have experienced real rises in some areas of crime affecting our communities such as violence, burglary and robbery, similar to other forces nationally. Conversely we have seen a reduction in other areas of crime including vehicle crime and theft from the person.
Rates of crime per 1,000 people
1. West Yorkshire 101.7
2. Greater Manchester 98.6
3. Cleveland 95.1
4. South Yorkshire 88.4
5. Northumbria 88.4
6. Kent 87.6
7. Humberside 87.0
8. Durham 84.9
9. Lancashire 84.1
10. London (Met) 81.4
11. Nottinghamshire 76.3
12. Merseyside 75.5
13. West Midlands
14. Gwent 73.3
15. Leicestershire 69.4
16. Hampshire 69.2
17. Northamptonshire 68.7
18. Cambridgeshire 68.6
19. Avon and Somerset 68.0
20. North Wales 67.6
21. Staffordshire 67.2
22. South Wales 66.0
23. Bedfordshire 66.7
24. Essex 66.0
25. Warwickshire 65.6
26. Cheshire 65.3
27. Hertfordshire 61.0
28. Suffolk 59.5
29. West Mercia 59.0
30. Dorset 58.6
31. Thames Valley 58.6
32. Sussex 56.5
33. Wiltshire 54.4
34. Cumbria 53.8
35. Norfolk 52.9
36. Devon and Cornwall 52.0
37. Surrey 52.2
38. Lincolnshire 50.1
39. Gloucestershire 49.6
40. Derbyshire 48.4
41. North Yorkshire 44.4
42. Dyfed-Powys 43.1
He added: We have experienced some of the worst cuts to our budgets when compared to other forces nationally at a time when criminality is not only increasing, but evolving in terms of seriousness and complexity and at a time when we have seen unprecedented increases in calls for service to our 999 and 101 system.
Overall, crime has increased across England and Wales by 10% in the past year.
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Kent has also seen a rise in the rankings after seeing a 40% rise in knife crime, violent crime being carried away from city centres and an increase in homegrown gangs.
Children as young as 10 were found to have been involved in knife activity.
One blackspot for both theft and criminal arson offences in Cleveland in the north-east.
The region has continued to cut its police forces and Hartlepool police force have been left with only 10 officers to cover an area with arounf 90,000 people.
If youre looking for somewhere safe to relocate to, then Dyfed-Powys in Wales was the safest place to live with 43.1 offences per 1,000 people.
And robbery offences in mid-Wales were 35 times lower than London.
But the areas hit with the most sexual offences was topped by North Wales, and followed by Kent and West Yorkshire.
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