Crime Statistics for High Hesleden, Monk Hesleden, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for High Hesleden in September 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Violent Crime	5
Other Theft	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Crime	2
Shoplifting	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	21

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 High Hesleden. 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 High Hesleden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Horden (1.96 miles)	363
Hart Station (2.24 miles)	73
Blackhall Colliery (0.62 miles)	58
Blackhall Rocks (0.62 miles)	33
Castle Eden (1.96 miles)	26
Eden Vale (1.96 miles)	21
High Hesleden	21
Crimdon Park (1.96 miles)	16
Hesleden (0.62 miles)	10
Monk Hesleden (0.62 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near High Hesleden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Horden	130
Hart Station	20
Blackhall Colliery	20
Blackhall Rocks	10
Castle Eden	10
High Hesleden	5
Crimdon Park	5
Eden Vale	4
Hesleden	2
Monk Hesleden	0

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

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 High Hesleden 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 High Hesleden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to High Hesleden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in High Hesleden have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Hart.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peterlee East	96
2	Horden	90
3	Victoria	89
4	Blackhalls	88
5	Headland and Harbour	84
6	Wingate	83
7	Peterlee West	81
8	Jesmond	78
9	De Bruce	61
10	Passfield	53
11	Hart	36

Which road in High Hesleden has the highest level of crime?

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