Crime Statistics for Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Billingham in October 2024. There were a total of 192 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 Billingham, 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 Crime63
Anti Social Behaviour29
Criminal Damage Arson19
Other Theft17
Shoplifting15
Public Order13
Vehicle Crime11
Burglary10
Drugs5
Bicycle Theft4
Possession Of Weapons3
Other Crime3
All Crime192

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stockton-on-Tees (2.63 miles)845
Linthorpe (3.34 miles)703
Port Clarence (2.24 miles)635
Norton (1.75 miles)435
Portrack (2.48 miles)331
Hardwick (3.34 miles)200
Billingham192
Newton Bewley (1.86 miles)116
Greatham (3.1 miles)6
Fulthorpe (3.16 miles)3

3.56%
of Billingham South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Billingham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Stockton-on-Tees303
Linthorpe195
Port Clarence186
Norton154
Portrack128
Hardwick99
Billingham63
Newton Bewley41
Fulthorpe1
Greatham0

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

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 Billingham 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 Billingham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Stockton Town Centre96
2Newtown82
3Norton South72
4Roseworth67
5Norton North63
6Billingham East57
7Billingham Central57
8Billingham South37
9Billingham North27
10Billingham West18
11Norton West11

Which road in Billingham has the highest level of crime?

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

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