Crime Statistics for High Church, Tranwell, Northumberland, 2024

Crime statistics for High Church, Tranwell

There were a total of 147 street level crime incidents in High Church in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in High Church, 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 Crime42
Criminal Damage Arson26
Anti Social Behaviour21
Public Order19
Other Theft15
Burglary9
Shoplifting6
Other Crime3
Vehicle Crime3
Theft From The Person3
All Crime147

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes High Church. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 High Church

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Fulbeck (1.24 miles)166
Stobhillgate (0.62 miles)161
Morpeth (0.62 miles)161
High Church147
Stobhill (0.88 miles)44
Loansdean (0.62 miles)27
Pegswood (2.24 miles)19
Fair Moor (1.39 miles)18
Hepscott (1.96 miles)12
Mitford (1.39 miles)0

3.8%
of Morpeth Kirkhill residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near High Church?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Fulbeck58
Stobhillgate43
Morpeth43
High Church42
Fair Moor11
Stobhill9
Pegswood8
Loansdean4
Hepscott0
Mitford0

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

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 High Church 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 High Church compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bedlington East86
2Bedlington Central83
3Stakeford57
4Bedlington West57
5Morpeth North52
6Bothal50
7Choppington47
8Morpeth Stobhill47
9Pegswood46
10Longhorsley21
11Morpeth Kirkhill12

Which road in High Church has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in High Church with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Lady's Walk.

Last updated: January 2024
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