Crime Statistics for Grange Hill, Dene Valley, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grange Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 115 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 Grange Hill, 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	61
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Public Order	8
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Shoplifting	4
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	2
All Crime	115

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 Grange Hill. 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 Grange Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Coundon (0.88 miles)	324
Bishop Auckland (1.96 miles)	266
South Church (1.39 miles)	207
Close House (1.24 miles)	156
Grange Hill	115
Shildon (1.86 miles)	113
Old Eldon (1.39 miles)	105
Leasingthorne (1.24 miles)	40
Toronto (2.55 miles)	15
Binchester Blocks (1.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Grange Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Coundon	132
Shildon	98
South Church	83
Close House	80
Grange Hill	61
Bishop Auckland	57
Old Eldon	49
Leasingthorne	17
Toronto	13
Binchester Blocks	1

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

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 Grange Hill 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 Grange Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Coundon	84
4	Aycliffe West	80
5	Ferryhill	79
6	Bishop Auckland Town	73
7	Spennymoor	65
8	Chilton	62
9	Tudhoe	59
10	West Auckland	52
11	Aycliffe North and Middridge	45

Which road in Grange Hill has the highest level of crime?

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