Crime Statistics for Chirton, North Tyneside, North Tyneside, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chirton in September 2024. There were a total of 710 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 Chirton, 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	207
Anti Social Behaviour	168
Shoplifting	80
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Public Order	48
Other Theft	44
Vehicle Crime	22
Burglary	20
Drugs	16
Other Crime	15
Robbery	12
Possession Of Weapons	10
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	710

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 Chirton. 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 Chirton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
North Shields (0.62 miles)	774
Chirton	671
Holy Cross (1.96 miles)	584
South Shields (1.75 miles)	563
Mill Dam (1.39 miles)	544
Tynemouth (0.88 miles)	413
Billy Mill (0.88 miles)	290
Jarrow (1.86 miles)	236
Marden (1.39 miles)	201
Cullercoats (1.75 miles)	176

Where are the most violent places near Chirton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mill Dam	316
North Shields	250
Holy Cross	230
Chirton	207
South Shields	152
Billy Mill	119
Tynemouth	113
Marden	67
Jarrow	61
Cullercoats	49

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

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 Chirton 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 Chirton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Simonside and Rekendyke	89
2	Chirton	88
3	Beacon and Bents	88
4	Riverside	86
5	Howdon	74
6	Primrose	68
7	Tynemouth	59
8	Collingwood	51
9	Westoe	51
10	Preston	50
11	Cullercoats	39

Which road in Chirton has the highest level of crime?

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