Crime Statistics for Doxford Park, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

Crime statistics for Doxford Park, Sunderland

There were a total of 90 street level crime incidents in Doxford Park in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Doxford Park, 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 Crime32
Shoplifting16
Anti Social Behaviour15
Public Order7
Other Theft6
Criminal Damage Arson6
Other Crime3
Burglary2
Theft From The Person1
Vehicle Crime1
Robbery1
All Crime90

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 Doxford Park. 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 Doxford Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
New Silksworth (0.62 miles)181
Tunstall (0.88 miles)155
Ryhope Colliery (1.96 miles)138
Farringdon (0.88 miles)126
Hasting Hill (1.75 miles)114
Doxford Park90
Ryhope (1.86 miles)85
Stony Gate (1.39 miles)66
Burdon (0.88 miles)32
Old Burdon (1.39 miles)4

2.61%
of Sandhill residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Doxford Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
New Silksworth75
Ryhope Colliery61
Tunstall60
Farringdon51
Hasting Hill41
Ryhope41
Doxford Park32
Stony Gate18
Burdon10
Old Burdon2

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

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 Doxford Park 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 Doxford Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Doxford Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Doxford Park is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Pallion76
2Sandhill75
3St Michael's75
4Barnes71
5Shiney Row70
6Houghton67
7Copt Hill67
8Ryhope66
9Silksworth60
10St Chad's56
11Doxford32

Which road in Doxford Park has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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