Crime Statistics for Marley Hill, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

There were a total of 28 street level crime incidents in Marley Hill in February 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Violent Crime	9
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Public Order	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	28

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 Marley 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 Marley Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lobley Hill (2.24 miles)	43
Axwell Park (1.96 miles)	43
Street Gate (0.88 miles)	37
Marley Hill	28
Sheep Hill (1.96 miles)	19
Tanfield (2.24 miles)	17
Fellside (1.39 miles)	16
Crookgate Bank (1.75 miles)	13
Byermoor (1.39 miles)	10
Causey (1.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Marley Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lobley Hill	18
Axwell Park	17
Street Gate	14
Marley Hill	9
Tanfield	9
Fellside	5
Sheep Hill	4
Crookgate Bank	4
Byermoor	4
Causey	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Marley 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 Marley 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 Marley Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Marley Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Marley Hill have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Saltwell.

#	Ward	Score
1	Saltwell	93
2	Benwell & Scotswood	81
3	Lobley Hill and Bensham	71
4	Chowdene	68
5	Dunston and Teams	66
6	Stanley	65
7	Blaydon	58
8	Tanfield	55
9	Dunston Hill and Whickham East	52
10	Whickham North	35
11	Whickham South and Sunniside	19

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

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