Crime Statistics for Oak Tree, Middleton St George, Darlington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oak Tree in October 2024. There were a total of 28 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 Oak Tree, 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	11
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Public Order	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	28

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Firth Moor (3.1 miles)	269
Great Burdon (3.1 miles)	156
Oak Tree	28
Neasham (2.63 miles)	18
Aislaby (3.16 miles)	7
Sadberge (2.56 miles)	5
Longnewton (2.63 miles)	4
Low Dinsdale (1.39 miles)	3
Tees (2.19 miles)	0
Eryholme (3.62 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Oak Tree?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Firth Moor	85
Great Burdon	71
Oak Tree	11
Neasham	2
Aislaby	1
Longnewton	1
Sadberge	0
Low Dinsdale	0
Tees	0
Eryholme	0

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

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 Oak Tree 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 Oak Tree compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Oak Tree and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Oak Tree is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bank Top & Lascelles	92
2	Park East	92
3	Eastbourne	86
4	Stephenson	84
5	Red Hall & Lingfield	77
6	Haughton & Springfield	63
7	Whinfield	54
8	Hurworth	50
9	Sadberge & Middleton St George	39
10	Western Parishes	29
11	Appleton Wiske & Smeatons	6

Which road in Oak Tree has the highest level of crime?

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