Crime Statistics for High Grange, Durham, 2024

Crime statistics for High Grange, High Grange

There were a total of 2 street level crime incidents in High Grange in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
Violent Crime1
All Crime2

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes High Grange. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Grange

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Etherley Dene (2.24 miles)141
Crook (2.56 miles)90
Helmington Row (2.56 miles)33
Toronto (1.39 miles)31
Escomb (0.88 miles)12
High Etherley (1.96 miles)11
Toft Hill (2.24 miles)9
New Hunwick (0.88 miles)7
Wear (0.31 miles)3
High Grange2

4.11%
of West Auckland residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near High Grange?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Crook39
Etherley Dene34
Helmington Row14
Toronto12
Escomb5
Wear2
High Etherley1
Toft Hill1
New Hunwick1
High Grange1

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

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 Grange 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 Grange compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to High Grange and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in High Grange have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Shildon and Dene Valley.

#WardScore
1Shildon and Dene Valley88
2Woodhouse Close85
3Coundon84
4Bishop Auckland Town73
5Willington and Hunwick72
6Tow Law70
7Spennymoor65
8Tudhoe59
9Evenwood55
10Crook53
11West Auckland52

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

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

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