Crime Statistics for Wall Nook, Langley Park, Durham, 2024

There were a total of 32 street level crime incidents in Wall Nook 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 Wall Nook, 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	15
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	3
Other Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	32

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 Wall Nook. 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 Wall Nook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Nettlesworth (2.77 miles)	60
Tan Hills (2.77 miles)	60
Bearpark (1.75 miles)	47
Sacriston (2.24 miles)	38
Langley Park (0.62 miles)	34
Wall Nook	32
Browney (2.56 miles)	28
New Brancepeth (2.56 miles)	24
Esh (1.39 miles)	8
Burnhope (2.63 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Wall Nook?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Brancepeth	18
Bearpark	17
Nettlesworth	16
Tan Hills	16
Langley Park	16
Wall Nook	15
Sacriston	11
Browney	10
Esh	6
Burnhope	3

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

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 Wall Nook 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 Wall Nook compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wall Nook and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Wall Nook is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Sacriston	72
3	Willington and Hunwick	72
4	Annfield Plain	71
5	Brandon	62
6	Deerness	55
7	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
8	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
9	Neville's Cross	27
10	Lanchester	26
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Wall Nook has the highest level of crime?

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