Crime Statistics for Crawcrook, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

There were a total of 33 street level crime incidents in Crawcrook in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Crawcrook, 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	12
Shoplifting	8
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Public Order	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	33

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 Crawcrook. 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 Crawcrook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ryton (1.39 miles)	80
Crookhill (1.24 miles)	80
Bar Moor (0.88 miles)	79
Blaydon Burn (1.96 miles)	54
Clara Vale (0.62 miles)	43
Crawcrook	33
Greenside (0.88 miles)	15
Ryton Woodside (0.88 miles)	15
Heddon-on-the-Wall (1.86 miles)	5
Coalburns (1.39 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Crawcrook?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crookhill	24
Ryton	23
Bar Moor	21
Blaydon Burn	16
Clara Vale	13
Crawcrook	12
Greenside	10
Ryton Woodside	10
Heddon-on-the-Wall	1
Coalburns	1

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

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 Crawcrook 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 Crawcrook compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lemington	67
2	Chopwell and Rowlands Gill	56
3	Winlaton and High Spen	48
4	Prudhoe South	41
5	Ryton, Crookhill and Stella	41
6	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
7	Chapel	28
8	Prudhoe North	27
9	Bywell	26
10	Stocksfield and Broomhaugh	9
11	Ponteland South with Heddon	4

Which road in Crawcrook has the highest level of crime?

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