Crime Statistics for Bearpark, Ushaw Moor, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bearpark in September 2024. There were a total of 78 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime32
Anti Social Behaviour18
Criminal Damage Arson9
Shoplifting7
Other Crime3
Vehicle Crime3
Public Order2
Bicycle Theft1
Drugs1
Robbery1
Burglary1
All Crime78

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Aykley Heads (1.86 miles)213
Wall Nook (1.75 miles)97
Pity Me (2.24 miles)71
Bearpark69
Browney (0.94 miles)65
Langley Park (1.39 miles)61
Broompark (1.39 miles)52
Framwellgate Moor (1.96 miles)50
Neville’s Cross (1.75 miles)25
New Brancepeth (1.39 miles)11

4.88%
of Deerness residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Aykley Heads91
Broompark63
Wall Nook41
Bearpark32
Framwellgate Moor31
Browney26
Langley Park24
Pity Me21
Neville’s Cross8
New Brancepeth2

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.

#WardScore
1Sacriston72
2Willington and Hunwick72
3Brandon62
4Tudhoe59
5Deerness55
6Elvet and Gilesgate54
7Esh and Witton Gilbert52
8Neville's Cross27
9Lanchester26
10Durham South18
11Framwellgate and Newton Hall18

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.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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