Crime Statistics for Longbenton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Longbenton in September 2024. There were a total of 194 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 Longbenton, 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	65
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Shoplifting	15
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Burglary	13
Public Order	12
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	10
Other Crime	4
Robbery	3
Drugs	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	194

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 Longbenton. 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 Longbenton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heaton (1.39 miles)	545
Jesmond (1.39 miles)	459
Killingworth Village (1.75 miles)	378
Wallsend (2.24 miles)	301
Killingworth (1.96 miles)	294
Forest Hall (0.88 miles)	272
Killingworth Moor (1.75 miles)	271
Gosforth (1.86 miles)	264
Longbenton	194
South Gosforth (1.39 miles)	168

Where are the most violent places near Longbenton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Killingworth Village	176
Jesmond	149
Heaton	116
Wallsend	112
Forest Hall	101
Gosforth	84
Killingworth Moor	73
Longbenton	65
Killingworth	58
South Gosforth	45

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

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 Longbenton 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 Longbenton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Heaton	62
2	Fawdon & West Gosforth	59
3	Benton	55
4	Northumberland	52
5	South Jesmond	49
6	Longbenton	47
7	North Jesmond	45
8	Gosforth	42
9	Parklands	38
10	Dene & South Gosforth	29
11	Manor Park	26

Which road in Longbenton has the highest level of crime?

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