Crime Statistics for Lanchester, Durham, 2024

Crime statistics for Lanchester, Lanchester

There were a total of 11 street level crime incidents in Lanchester in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Other Theft3
Violent Crime3
Public Order2
Burglary1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Other Crime1
All Crime11

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 Lanchester. 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 Lanchester

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Moor (2.78 miles)76
New Kyo (2.56 miles)61
Annfield Plain (2.56 miles)61
Greencroft (2.48 miles)50
Iveston (2.63 miles)34
Burnhope (1.39 miles)14
Blackgill Burn (0.36 miles)12
Lanchester11
Maiden Law (1.39 miles)5
Esh (2.63 miles)3

2.99%
of Lanchester residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lanchester?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Moor31
New Kyo30
Annfield Plain30
Greencroft24
Iveston22
Burnhope7
Blackgill Burn3
Lanchester3
Maiden Law2
Esh2

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

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 Lanchester 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 Lanchester compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Craghead and South Moor79
2Annfield Plain71
3Consett South68
4Stanley65
5Tanfield55
6Consett North54
7Esh and Witton Gilbert52
8Delves Lane52
9Benfieldside39
10Burnopfield and Dipton27
11Lanchester26

Which road in Lanchester has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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