Crime Statistics for Sheep Hill, Burnopfield, Durham, 2024

There were a total of 19 street level crime incidents in Sheep Hill in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	9
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Violent Crime	4
Other Theft	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	19

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 Sheep Hill. 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 Sheep Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rowlands Gill (0.88 miles)	34
Sheep Hill	19
Tanfield (1.39 miles)	17
Crookgate Bank (0.88 miles)	13
Clough Dene (1.24 miles)	11
Hobson (1.24 miles)	11
Byermoor (0.62 miles)	10
Lintz (0.88 miles)	8
High Friarside (0.88 miles)	8
Burnopfield (0.88 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Sheep Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rowlands Gill	13
Tanfield	9
Clough Dene	6
Hobson	6
Sheep Hill	4
Crookgate Bank	4
Byermoor	4
Lintz	2
High Friarside	2
Burnopfield	2

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

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 Sheep Hill 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 Sheep Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Annfield Plain	71
3	Stanley	65
4	Chopwell and Rowlands Gill	56
5	Tanfield	55
6	Leadgate and Medomsley	53
7	Dunston Hill and Whickham East	52
8	Winlaton and High Spen	48
9	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
10	Burnopfield and Dipton	27
11	Whickham South and Sunniside	19

Which road in Sheep Hill has the highest level of crime?

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