Crime Statistics for Cold Hesledon, Murton, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cold Hesledon in September 2024. There were a total of 118 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	41
Violent Crime	21
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Other Theft	9
Burglary	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Public Order	4
Other Crime	3
Drugs	1
All Crime	118

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 Cold Hesledon. 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 Cold Hesledon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dalton-le-Dale	118
Cold Hesledon	118
Parkside (1.39 miles)	113
Greenhill (0.62 miles)	111
Northlea (1.96 miles)	106
Easington Lane (2.55 miles)	71
Great Eppleton (2.56 miles)	71
South Hetton (2.24 miles)	71
Easington (2.56 miles)	35
Old Burdon (2.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Cold Hesledon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Parkside	34
Northlea	33
Great Eppleton	24
Dalton-le-Dale	21
Cold Hesledon	21
Greenhill	20
Easington Lane	18
Easington	11
South Hetton	8
Old Burdon	0

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

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 Cold Hesledon 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 Cold Hesledon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cold Hesledon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cold Hesledon is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Horden	90
2	Shotton and South Hetton	84
3	Peterlee West	81
4	Easington	81
5	Murton	81
6	Dawdon	68
7	Houghton	67
8	Ryhope	66
9	Deneside	60
10	Seaham	41
11	Doxford	32

Which road in Cold Hesledon has the highest level of crime?

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