Crime Statistics for Bearpark, Ushaw Moor, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bearpark in October 2024. There were a total of 72 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 Bearpark, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Shoplifting	16
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
Public Order	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	72

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 Bearpark. 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 Bearpark

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aykley Heads (1.86 miles)	267
Pity Me (2.24 miles)	106
Browney (0.94 miles)	104
Framwellgate Moor (1.96 miles)	104
Broompark (1.39 miles)	89
Bearpark	72
Neville’s Cross (1.75 miles)	57
Wall Nook (1.75 miles)	56
Langley Park (1.39 miles)	37
New Brancepeth (1.39 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Bearpark?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aykley Heads	80
Browney	60
Framwellgate Moor	58
Wall Nook	36
Broompark	31
Pity Me	27
Neville’s Cross	24
Bearpark	20
Langley Park	16
New Brancepeth	3

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

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 Bearpark 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 Bearpark compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bearpark and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bearpark is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sacriston	72
2	Willington and Hunwick	72
3	Brandon	62
4	Tudhoe	59
5	Deerness	55
6	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
7	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
8	Neville's Cross	27
9	Lanchester	26
10	Durham South	18
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Bearpark has the highest level of crime?

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