Crime Statistics for Bildershaw, Houghton Le Side, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bildershaw in August 2024. There were a total of 4 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Public Order.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson3
Public Order1
All Crime4

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bildershaw. 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 Bildershaw

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bishop Auckland (2.48 miles)408
South Church (2.56 miles)277
Etherley Dene (2.56 miles)192
Tindale Crescent (1.96 miles)189
Shildon (2.24 miles)162
Gaunless (1.42 miles)128
Evenwood Gate (2.48 miles)9
Redworth (2.56 miles)5
Bildershaw4
Royal Oak (0.62 miles)0

2.1%
of Evenwood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bildershaw?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bishop Auckland113
South Church64
Shildon62
Tindale Crescent55
Gaunless48
Etherley Dene43
Evenwood Gate4
Redworth2
Bildershaw0
Royal Oak0

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

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 Bildershaw 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 Bildershaw compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bildershaw and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bildershaw is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Shildon and Dene Valley88
2Woodhouse Close85
3Coundon84
4Aycliffe West80
5Bishop Auckland Town73
6Aycliffe East60
7Evenwood55
8West Auckland52
9Aycliffe North and Middridge45
10Heighington & Coniscliffe36
11Barnard Castle East21

Which road in Bildershaw has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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