Crime Statistics for Gilesgate, Durham, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gilesgate in September 2024. There were a total of 614 incidents. 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 Gilesgate, 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	182
Shoplifting	104
Anti Social Behaviour	92
Public Order	76
Criminal Damage Arson	46
Other Theft	40
Drugs	26
Burglary	18
Other Crime	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	2
All Crime	614

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 Gilesgate. 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 Gilesgate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gilesgate	588
Durham (0.88 miles)	237
Aykley Heads (1.24 miles)	213
Gilesgate Moor (0.88 miles)	165
Moor End (1.24 miles)	160
Belmont (1.24 miles)	160
Carrville (1.24 miles)	125
Newton Hall (1.39 miles)	110
Sherburn Grange (1.39 miles)	103
Framwellgate Moor (1.39 miles)	94

Where are the most violent places near Gilesgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gilesgate	182
Aykley Heads	91
Durham	78
Carrville	67
Gilesgate Moor	46
Moor End	45
Belmont	45
Newton Hall	37
Framwellgate Moor	35
Sherburn Grange	34

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

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 Gilesgate 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 Gilesgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gilesgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gilesgate is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shotton and South Hetton	84
2	Sacriston	72
3	Sherburn	70
4	Brandon	62
5	Deerness	55
6	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
7	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
8	Belmont	48
9	Neville's Cross	27
10	Durham South	18
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Gilesgate has the highest level of crime?

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