There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson.
| Crime Category | Incidents |
|---|---|
| Criminal Damage Arson | 1 |
| All Crime | 1 |
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 Fir Tree. 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 Fir Tree
We've taken the ten nearest places to Fir Tree and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Fir Tree has more crime than other surrounding areas.
| Location | Crime Incidents |
|---|---|
| Crook (1.39 miles) | 128 |
| Billy Row (2.24 miles) | 85 |
| Helmington Row (2.56 miles) | 30 |
| Tow Law (3.1 miles) | 9 |
| Wear (2.86 miles) | 8 |
| High Grange (2.63 miles) | 8 |
| Bedburn (3.1 miles) | 4 |
| New Hunwick (2.77 miles) | 3 |
| Craigside (1.39 miles) | 1 |
| Fir Tree | 1 |
of Crook residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census
Where are the most violent places near Fir Tree?
The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Fir Tree and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.
| Location | Violent Incidents |
|---|---|
| Crook | 41 |
| Billy Row | 28 |
| Helmington Row | 10 |
| Wear | 4 |
| High Grange | 4 |
| Tow Law | 2 |
| New Hunwick | 2 |
| Bedburn | 0 |
| Craigside | 0 |
| Fir Tree | 0 |
How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Fir Tree?
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 Fir Tree 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 Fir Tree compare to surrounding wards?
We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fir Tree and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Fir Tree is ranked #10.| # | Ward | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shildon and Dene Valley | 88 |
| 2 | Woodhouse Close | 85 |
| 3 | Coundon | 84 |
| 4 | Bishop Auckland Town | 73 |
| 5 | Willington and Hunwick | 72 |
| 6 | Tow Law | 70 |
| 7 | Spennymoor | 65 |
| 8 | Tudhoe | 59 |
| 9 | Evenwood | 55 |
| 10 | Crook | 53 |
| 11 | West Auckland | 52 |
Which road in Fir Tree has the highest level of crime?
We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Fir Tree with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around St Mary's Avenue.
Information provided by data.police.uk
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