Crime Statistics for Ryton, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ryton in August 2024. There were a total of 168 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	58
Violent Crime	44
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Crime	10
Public Order	10
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Theft	4
All Crime	168

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ryton. 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 Ryton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Path Head (1.39 miles)	159
Ryton	147
Tyne (1.14 miles)	125
Newburn (1.39 miles)	96
Bar Moor (0.62 miles)	91
Crookhill (0.62 miles)	88
Crawcrook (1.39 miles)	78
Bank Top (1.39 miles)	67
Blaydon Burn (1.39 miles)	45
Clara Vale (1.24 miles)	43

Where are the most violent places near Ryton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Path Head	46
Ryton	44
Tyne	29
Crawcrook	28
Newburn	26
Bar Moor	26
Crookhill	24
Bank Top	14
Clara Vale	14
Blaydon Burn	12

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

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 Ryton 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 Ryton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ryton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ryton is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Benwell & Scotswood	81
2	West Fenham	78
3	Lemington	67
4	Blaydon	58
5	Winlaton and High Spen	48
6	Prudhoe South	41
7	Ryton, Crookhill and Stella	41
8	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
9	Chapel	28
10	Prudhoe North	27
11	Ponteland South with Heddon	4

Which road in Ryton has the highest level of crime?

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