Crime Statistics for Aykley Heads, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Aykley Heads in September 2024. There were a total of 264 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Aykley Heads, 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	91
Shoplifting	53
Public Order	38
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Other Theft	18
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Drugs	7
Burglary	7
Possession Of Weapons	5
Vehicle Crime	5
Other Crime	3
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	264

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 Aykley Heads. 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 Aykley Heads

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gilesgate (1.24 miles)	588
Durham (0.88 miles)	237
Aykley Heads	213
Newton Hall (1.39 miles)	110
Pity Me (1.24 miles)	107
Framwellgate Moor (0.62 miles)	94
Bearpark (1.86 miles)	69
Browney (0.94 miles)	65
Broompark (1.75 miles)	52
Neville’s Cross (1.39 miles)	31

Where are the most violent places near Aykley Heads?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gilesgate	182
Aykley Heads	91
Durham	78
Broompark	63
Pity Me	38
Newton Hall	37
Framwellgate Moor	35
Bearpark	32
Browney	26
Neville’s Cross	17

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

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 Aykley Heads 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 Aykley Heads compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sacriston	72
2	Willington and Hunwick	72
3	Sherburn	70
4	Brandon	62
5	Deerness	55
6	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
7	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
8	Belmont	48
9	Neville's Cross	27
10	Durham South	18
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Aykley Heads has the highest level of crime?

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