Crime Statistics for Ferryhill, Durham, 2024

There were a total of 117 street level crime incidents in Ferryhill in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ferryhill, 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	49
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Public Order	9
Drugs	7
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	5
Other Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	117

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 Ferryhill. 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 Ferryhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ferryhill	117
Spennymoor (2.55 miles)	108
Great Chilton (1.24 miles)	58
Chilton (1.96 miles)	58
Chilton Lane (1.39 miles)	43
Ferryhill Station (0.88 miles)	38
Rushford Beck (1.41 miles)	34
Mainsforth (1.39 miles)	27
Cornforth (1.75 miles)	15
Tursdale (1.96 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Ferryhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ferryhill	49
Spennymoor	41
Great Chilton	24
Chilton	24
Chilton Lane	17
Ferryhill Station	16
Mainsforth	11
Rushford Beck	10
Cornforth	7
Tursdale	3

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

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 Ferryhill 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 Ferryhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ferryhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Ferryhill is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Coundon	84
2	Aycliffe West	80
3	Ferryhill	79
4	Willington and Hunwick	72
5	Spennymoor	65
6	Chilton	62
7	Tudhoe	59
8	Bishop Middleham and Cornforth	51
9	Coxhoe	47
10	Aycliffe North and Middridge	45
11	Durham South	18

Which road in Ferryhill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Ferryhill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around St Aidan's Way.