Crime Statistics for Fawdon, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2024

There were a total of 259 street level crime incidents in Fawdon 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 Fawdon, 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	77
Anti Social Behaviour	55
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Other Theft	26
Shoplifting	22
Public Order	15
Other Crime	11
Vehicle Crime	9
Burglary	7
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	259

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 Fawdon. 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 Fawdon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Spital Tongues (1.96 miles)	679
Fenham (1.86 miles)	495
Blakelaw (1.39 miles)	370
Kenton Bar (0.88 miles)	352
Newbiggin Hall Estate (1.39 miles)	316
Kenton (0.62 miles)	285
Fawdon	259
Gosforth (0.62 miles)	227
Kenton Bankfoot (1.24 miles)	211
South Gosforth (1.39 miles)	185

Where are the most violent places near Fawdon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Spital Tongues	227
Fenham	191
Kenton Bar	122
Blakelaw	118
Newbiggin Hall Estate	101
Kenton	89
Fawdon	77
Gosforth	75
Kenton Bankfoot	66
South Gosforth	44

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

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 Fawdon 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 Fawdon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakelaw	85
2	West Fenham	78
3	Wingrove	71
4	Denton & Westerhope	68
5	Kingston Park South & Newbiggin Hall	66
6	Kenton	62
7	Callerton & Throckley	60
8	Fawdon & West Gosforth	59
9	South Jesmond	49
10	North Jesmond	45
11	Gosforth	42

Which road in Fawdon has the highest level of crime?

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