Crime Statistics for South Newsham, New Hartley, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Newsham in August 2024. There were a total of 108 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 Newsham, 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	32
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Public Order	8
Burglary	6
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Theft	4
All Crime	108

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 South Newsham. 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 Newsham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blyth (1.86 miles)	382
Newsham (1.24 miles)	235
Isabella Pit (1.24 miles)	235
Mayfield (2.24 miles)	162
Holywell (2.56 miles)	122
South Newsham	103
New Hartley (1.24 miles)	99
New Delaval (0.88 miles)	97
Bebside (2.24 miles)	57
South Beach (1.39 miles)	49

Where are the most violent places near South Newsham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blyth	133
Newsham	76
Isabella Pit	70
Mayfield	50
Holywell	40
South Newsham	32
New Hartley	28
New Delaval	25
Bebside	19
South Beach	12

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

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 Newsham 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 Newsham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newsham	91
2	Isabella	90
3	Seghill with Seaton Delaval	79
4	Cramlington East	72
5	Holywell	59
6	South Blyth	51
7	Plessey	50
8	Cramlington Eastfield	46
9	Cramlington Village	45
10	Hartley	38
11	Cramlington North	20

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

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