Crime Statistics for South Beach, Blyth, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Beach in September 2024. There were a total of 36 incidents. 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour17
Violent Crime9
Shoplifting5
Public Order4
Other Crime1
All Crime36

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blyth (1.75 miles)747
Newsham (1.39 miles)236
Isabella Pit (1.39 miles)236
South Newsham (1.39 miles)140
New Delaval (1.86 miles)103
Cambois (2.78 miles)102
New Hartley (2.24 miles)89
Bebside (2.77 miles)75
Holywell (3.17 miles)41
South Beach36

2.63%
of Hartley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near South Beach?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blyth266
Newsham73
Isabella Pit73
Cambois41
South Newsham37
New Hartley32
New Delaval27
Bebside26
South Beach9
Holywell8

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

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 Beach 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 Beach compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Croft99
2Cowpen95
3Newsham91
4Isabella90
5Wensleydale86
6Seghill with Seaton Delaval79
7Cramlington East72
8Holywell59
9South Blyth51
10Plessey50
11Hartley38

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

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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