Crime Statistics for The Dene, Highsteads, Durham, 2024

Crime statistics for The Dene, Highsteads

There were a total of 13 street level crime incidents in The Dene in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour3
Violent Crime3
Criminal Damage Arson3
Other Theft2
Burglary1
Other Crime1
All Crime13

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 The Dene. 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 The Dene

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Leadgate (1.96 miles)125
Blackhill (2.24 miles)73
Benfieldside (1.75 miles)35
Broom Hill (0.62 miles)17
Shotley Bridge (2.24 miles)17
The Dene13
Blackhall Mill (1.24 miles)6
Hamsterley (1.24 miles)6
Ebchester (0.88 miles)0
Newlands (0.88 miles)0

3.4%
of Leadgate and Medomsley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near The Dene?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Leadgate48
Blackhill35
Benfieldside21
Shotley Bridge10
Broom Hill5
Blackhall Mill4
Hamsterley4
The Dene3
Ebchester0
Newlands0

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

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 The Dene 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 The Dene compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to The Dene and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. The Dene is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Annfield Plain71
2Consett South68
3Chopwell and Rowlands Gill56
4Tanfield55
5Consett North54
6Leadgate and Medomsley53
7Delves Lane52
8Winlaton and High Spen48
9Benfieldside39
10Burnopfield and Dipton27
11South Tynedale21

Which road in The Dene has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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