Crime Statistics for Cramlington, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cramlington in September 2024. There were a total of 641 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 Cramlington, 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	199
Anti Social Behaviour	172
Criminal Damage Arson	88
Public Order	56
Shoplifting	48
Burglary	28
Other Theft	24
Drugs	8
Other Crime	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	641

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 Cramlington. 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 Cramlington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cramlington	322
Nelson Village (0.88 miles)	174
Mayfield (0.62 miles)	114
Collingwood (0.88 miles)	113
Southfield (0.62 miles)	92
New Hartley (2.48 miles)	89
Beaconhill (0.62 miles)	82
Fordley (1.86 miles)	70
Dudley (1.86 miles)	70
Annitsford (1.24 miles)	57

Where are the most violent places near Cramlington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cramlington	199
Mayfield	59
Nelson Village	48
Collingwood	38
New Hartley	32
Southfield	31
Fordley	31
Dudley	31
Annitsford	21
Beaconhill	20

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

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 Cramlington 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 Cramlington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Seghill with Seaton Delaval	79
2	Cramlington East	72
3	Holywell	59
4	Castle	47
5	Cramlington Eastfield	46
6	Cramlington Village	45
7	Weetslade	35
8	Cramlington South East	31
9	Ponteland East and Stannington	30
10	Cramlington West	28
11	Cramlington North	20

Which road in Cramlington has the highest level of crime?

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