Crime Statistics for Beamish, Durham, 2024

There were a total of 43 street level crime incidents in Beamish in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Violent Crime	13
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Burglary	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	43

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 Beamish. 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 Beamish

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Stanley (1.96 miles)	193
Shield Row (1.24 miles)	186
Pelton Fell (2.24 miles)	65
Pelton (1.86 miles)	53
Newfield (1.39 miles)	49
Beamish	43
Grange Villa (0.88 miles)	33
High Handenhold (0.62 miles)	31
Craghead (1.96 miles)	19
High Forge (0.62 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Beamish?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shield Row	89
South Stanley	88
Pelton Fell	39
Newfield	25
Pelton	21
Grange Villa	17
High Handenhold	15
Beamish	13
Craghead	9
High Forge	7

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

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 Beamish 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 Beamish compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Beamish and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Beamish is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Chester-le-Street West Central	76
3	Pelton	66
4	Stanley	65
5	Lamesley	64
6	Birtley	63
7	Tanfield	55
8	Chester-le-Street East	52
9	Chester-le-Street North	50
10	Chester-le-Street South	31
11	North Lodge	30

Which road in Beamish has the highest level of crime?

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