Crime Statistics for New Silksworth, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

There were a total of 166 street level crime incidents in New Silksworth in February 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 New Silksworth, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	71
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	12
Burglary	8
Shoplifting	7
Other Crime	7
Drugs	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	166

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Springwell (1.39 miles)	232
New Silksworth	166
Tunstall (0.62 miles)	141
Ryhope Colliery (1.86 miles)	126
Pennywell (1.75 miles)	112
Farringdon (0.62 miles)	110
Hasting Hill (1.39 miles)	87
Doxford Park (0.62 miles)	78
Stony Gate (1.75 miles)	76
Burdon (1.39 miles)	28

Where are the most violent places near New Silksworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Springwell	96
New Silksworth	71
Tunstall	63
Ryhope Colliery	63
Pennywell	51
Farringdon	44
Hasting Hill	33
Doxford Park	28
Stony Gate	16
Burdon	8

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

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 New Silksworth 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 New Silksworth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Pallion	76
2	Sandhill	75
3	St Michael's	75
4	St Anne's	72
5	Barnes	71
6	Houghton	67
7	Copt Hill	67
8	Ryhope	66
9	Silksworth	60
10	St Chad's	56
11	Doxford	32

Which road in New Silksworth has the highest level of crime?

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