Crime Statistics for Hebburn New Town, South Tyneside, South Tyneside, 2024

Crime statistics for Hebburn New Town, South Tyneside

There were a total of 285 street level crime incidents in Hebburn New Town in January 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 Hebburn New Town, 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 Crime81
Anti Social Behaviour55
Criminal Damage Arson38
Vehicle Crime22
Public Order20
Other Theft19
Shoplifting14
Burglary12
Drugs12
Other Crime6
Robbery3
Bicycle Theft1
Theft From The Person1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime285

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 Hebburn New Town. 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 Hebburn New Town

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Byker (1.86 miles)503
Felling Shore (1.96 miles)470
Wallsend (1.39 miles)325
Pelaw (1.75 miles)297
Hebburn (0.62 miles)287
Hebburn New Town285
Hebburn Colliery (0.88 miles)263
Bill Quay (1.39 miles)242
Monkton (1.39 miles)182
Fellgate (1.75 miles)133

2.89%
of Hebburn South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hebburn New Town?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Byker169
Felling Shore159
Wallsend127
Pelaw91
Hebburn83
Hebburn New Town81
Bill Quay81
Hebburn Colliery80
Monkton71
Fellgate44

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Hebburn New Town?

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 Hebburn New Town 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 Hebburn New Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hebburn New Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hebburn New Town is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Byker95
2Walker93
3Wallsend91
4Walkergate79
5Primrose68
6Monkton66
7Hebburn North61
8Hebburn South60
9Pelaw and Heworth56
10Fellgate and Hedworth55
11Wardley and Leam Lane50

Which road in Hebburn New Town has the highest level of crime?

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

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