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

Is Longbenton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 303 incidents. 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 Longbenton, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime74
Anti Social Behaviour54
Shoplifting41
Criminal Damage Arson28
Other Theft27
Burglary18
Public Order18
Bicycle Theft16
Vehicle Crime12
Drugs7
Other Crime7
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime303

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Longbenton. 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 Longbenton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Jesmond (1.39 miles)937
Heaton (1.39 miles)548
Gosforth (1.86 miles)355
Killingworth Moor (1.75 miles)300
Wallsend (2.24 miles)264
Longbenton245
South Gosforth (1.39 miles)166
Killingworth Village (1.75 miles)146
Forest Hall (0.88 miles)129
Killingworth (1.96 miles)128

15.01%
of Dene & South Gosforth residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Longbenton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Jesmond272
Gosforth127
Heaton122
Wallsend102
Killingworth Moor83
Longbenton74
Killingworth64
Killingworth Village63
Forest Hall39
South Gosforth36

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

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 Longbenton 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 Longbenton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Heaton62
2Fawdon & West Gosforth59
3Benton55
4Northumberland52
5South Jesmond49
6Longbenton47
7North Jesmond45
8Gosforth42
9Parklands38
10Dene & South Gosforth29
11Manor Park26

Which road in Longbenton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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