Crime Statistics for South Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2024

There were a total of 185 street level crime incidents in South Gosforth 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	46
Violent Crime	44
Vehicle Crime	22
Shoplifting	19
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Public Order	12
Other Theft	7
Burglary	6
Drugs	6
Other Crime	3
Robbery	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	185

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 South Gosforth. 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 South Gosforth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Spital Tongues (1.39 miles)	678
Jesmond (0.88 miles)	637
Fenham (1.75 miles)	495
Blakelaw (1.96 miles)	370
Kenton Bar (1.86 miles)	352
Kenton (1.24 miles)	285
Fawdon (1.39 miles)	259
Gosforth (0.88 miles)	227
Longbenton (1.39 miles)	202
South Gosforth	185

Where are the most violent places near South Gosforth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Spital Tongues	241
Fenham	191
Jesmond	145
Kenton Bar	122
Blakelaw	118
Kenton	89
Fawdon	77
Gosforth	75
Longbenton	62
South Gosforth	44

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

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 South Gosforth 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 South Gosforth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Gosforth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. South Gosforth is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakelaw	85
2	Arthur's Hill	75
3	Wingrove	71
4	Ouseburn	67
5	Kenton	62
6	Fawdon & West Gosforth	59
7	South Jesmond	49
8	North Jesmond	45
9	Gosforth	42
10	Dene & South Gosforth	29
11	Manor Park	26

Which road in South Gosforth has the highest level of crime?

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