Crime Statistics for South Church, St Andrew Auckland, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Church in September 2024. There were a total of 316 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Church, 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	83
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Shoplifting	64
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Public Order	19
Burglary	17
Other Theft	16
Vehicle Crime	11
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	316

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 South Church. 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 South Church

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tindale Crescent (1.39 miles)	348
New Coundon (1.39 miles)	324
Bishop Auckland (0.62 miles)	266
Gaunless (1.8 miles)	228
South Church	207
Etherley Dene (1.24 miles)	170
Close House (1.39 miles)	156
Grange Hill (1.39 miles)	115
Shildon (1.75 miles)	113
Toronto (1.75 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near South Church?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tindale Crescent	153
New Coundon	132
Shildon	98
South Church	83
Close House	80
Grange Hill	61
Bishop Auckland	57
Gaunless	56
Etherley Dene	41
Toronto	13

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

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 South Church 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 South Church compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Coundon	84
4	Aycliffe West	80
5	Bishop Auckland Town	73
6	Spennymoor	65
7	Chilton	62
8	Evenwood	55
9	Crook	53
10	West Auckland	52
11	Aycliffe North and Middridge	45

Which road in South Church has the highest level of crime?

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