Crime Statistics for Neville’s Cross, Langley Moor, Durham, 2024

There were a total of 49 street level crime incidents in Neville’s Cross 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 Neville’s Cross, 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	24
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Other Theft	4
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Drugs	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	49

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 Neville’s Cross. 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 Neville’s Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Durham (1.39 miles)	247
Aykley Heads (1.39 miles)	194
Framwellgate Moor (1.96 miles)	80
Broompark (0.62 miles)	71
Meadowfield (1.39 miles)	70
Langley Moor (0.62 miles)	65
Neville’s Cross	49
Bearpark (1.75 miles)	47
Browney (1.16 miles)	28
New Brancepeth (1.86 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Neville’s Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Durham	72
Aykley Heads	52
Broompark	42
Meadowfield	33
Langley Moor	32
Framwellgate Moor	26
Neville’s Cross	24
New Brancepeth	18
Bearpark	17
Browney	10

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Neville’s Cross?

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 Neville’s Cross 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 Neville’s Cross compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ferryhill	79
2	Willington and Hunwick	72
3	Brandon	62
4	Tudhoe	59
5	Deerness	55
6	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
7	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
8	Belmont	48
9	Neville's Cross	27
10	Durham South	18
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Neville’s Cross has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Neville’s Cross with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around A690.