Crime Statistics for South Church, St Andrew Auckland, Durham

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in South Church using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so December 2020 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 216 street level crime incidents in South Church in December 2020. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Church, 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	78
Anti Social Behaviour	42
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Shoplifting	22
Public Order	16
Burglary	8
Other Theft	8
Other Crime	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Drugs	3
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	216

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2020

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes South Church. 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 South Church

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Church	216
Bishop Auckland (0.62 miles)	194
Close House (1.39 miles)	146
New Coundon (1.39 miles)	140
Shildon (1.75 miles)	129
Tindale Crescent (1.39 miles)	124
Etherley Dene (1.24 miles)	121
Grange Hill (1.39 miles)	78
Gaunless (1.8 miles)	60
Toronto (1.75 miles)	10

3.3%
of County Durham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near South Church

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