Crime Statistics for High Forge, Gateshead, Durham, 2024

There were a total of 18 street level crime incidents in High Forge in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in High Forge, 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	7
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Other Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
All Crime	18

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 High Forge. 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 High Forge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shield Row (1.39 miles)	200
South Stanley (2.24 miles)	199
Pelton (1.96 miles)	71
Newfield (1.75 miles)	70
Beamish (0.62 miles)	43
High Handenhold (0.88 miles)	39
Grange Villa (1.39 miles)	37
High Forge	18
Kibblesworth (1.75 miles)	16
Causey (1.75 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near High Forge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Stanley	91
Shield Row	85
Pelton	24
Newfield	19
Beamish	13
Grange Villa	7
High Forge	7
High Handenhold	6
Kibblesworth	5
Causey	0

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

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 High Forge 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 High Forge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Pelton	66
3	Stanley	65
4	Lamesley	64
5	Birtley	63
6	Tanfield	55
7	Chester-le-Street East	52
8	Chester-le-Street North	50
9	Chester-le-Street South	31
10	North Lodge	30
11	Whickham South and Sunniside	19

Which road in High Forge has the highest level of crime?

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