Crime Statistics for Leasingthorne, Howlish, Durham, 2024

Crime statistics for Leasingthorne, Howlish

There were a total of 41 street level crime incidents in Leasingthorne 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 Arson8
Violent Crime7
Anti Social Behaviour7
Shoplifting5
Public Order4
Burglary3
Other Theft2
Vehicle Crime2
Other Crime1
Drugs1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime41

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 Leasingthorne. 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 Leasingthorne

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Close House (1.75 miles)155
Shildon (2.24 miles)143
Spennymoor (2.48 miles)140
New Coundon (1.96 miles)131
Old Eldon (1.39 miles)114
Grange Hill (1.24 miles)79
Chilton (1.86 miles)62
Leasingthorne41
Rushford Beck (1.69 miles)41
Rushyford (1.96 miles)17

2.76%
of Coundon residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Leasingthorne?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Spennymoor55
Close House52
Shildon50
New Coundon43
Old Eldon39
Grange Hill21
Chilton19
Rushford Beck11
Rushyford10
Leasingthorne7

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

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 Leasingthorne 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 Leasingthorne compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Shildon and Dene Valley88
2Woodhouse Close85
3Coundon84
4Aycliffe West80
5Ferryhill79
6Bishop Auckland Town73
7Spennymoor65
8Chilton62
9Tudhoe59
10West Auckland52
11Aycliffe North and Middridge45

Which road in Leasingthorne has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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