Crime Statistics for Easington Colliery, Grants Houses, Durham, 2024

There were a total of 151 street level crime incidents in Easington Colliery in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Easington Colliery, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	45
Shoplifting	34
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Theft	7
Burglary	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	4
Other Crime	3
Drugs	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	151

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Easington Colliery. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Easington Colliery

We've taken the ten nearest places to Easington Colliery and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Easington Colliery has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Horden (1.39 miles)	210
Little Thorpe (0.88 miles)	180
Easington Colliery	151
Parkside (3.17 miles)	114
Dalton-le-Dale (3.1 miles)	86
Cold Hesledon (3.1 miles)	86
Shotton (2.78 miles)	77
Blackhall Colliery (2.78 miles)	54
Shotton Colliery (3.1 miles)	54
Easington (1.24 miles)	28

Where are the most violent places near Easington Colliery?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Easington Colliery and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Thorpe	69
Horden	67
Easington Colliery	45
Parkside	43
Dalton-le-Dale	33
Cold Hesledon	33
Shotton	20
Easington	15
Shotton Colliery	14
Blackhall Colliery	12

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Easington Colliery?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Easington Colliery to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Easington Colliery compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Easington Colliery and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Easington Colliery is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peterlee East	96
2	Horden	90
3	Trimdon and Thornley	86
4	Wingate	83
5	Peterlee West	81
6	Easington	81
7	Murton	81
8	Dawdon	68
9	Deneside	60
10	Passfield	53
11	Seaham	41

Which road in Easington Colliery has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Easington Colliery with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around North Avenue.