Crime Statistics for Parkside, Seaham, County Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Parkside in September 2024. There were a total of 129 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Violent Crime	34
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Theft	8
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	3
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
Public Order	1
All Crime	129

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 Parkside. 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 Parkside

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Easington Colliery (3.17 miles)	129
Dalton-le-Dale (1.39 miles)	118
Cold Hesledon (1.39 miles)	118
Parkside	113
Greenhill (1.96 miles)	111
Northlea (1.39 miles)	106
Ryhope (2.78 miles)	96
Easington (3.17 miles)	35
Burdon (3.1 miles)	22
Old Burdon (2.77 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Parkside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ryhope	54
Easington Colliery	42
Parkside	34
Northlea	33
Dalton-le-Dale	21
Cold Hesledon	21
Greenhill	20
Easington	11
Burdon	3
Old Burdon	0

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

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 Parkside 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 Parkside compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Parkside and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Parkside is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Horden	90
2	Peterlee West	81
3	Easington	81
4	Murton	81
5	St Michael's	75
6	Dawdon	68
7	Ryhope	66
8	Silksworth	60
9	Deneside	60
10	Seaham	41
11	Doxford	32

Which road in Parkside has the highest level of crime?

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