Crime Statistics for Billy Row, Crook, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Billy Row in September 2024. There were a total of 67 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Violent Crime	13
Shoplifting	10
Other Theft	5
Burglary	4
Public Order	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	67

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 Billy Row. 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 Billy Row

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Helmington Row (1.75 miles)	97
Crook (1.24 miles)	93
Billy Row	67
Esh Winning (3.1 miles)	37
Waterhouses (2.78 miles)	27
Inkerman (3.34 miles)	24
Tow Law (3.16 miles)	19
Oakenshaw (1.86 miles)	2
Fir Tree (2.24 miles)	2
Craigside (2.77 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Billy Row?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Helmington Row	38
Crook	37
Billy Row	13
Esh Winning	12
Waterhouses	9
Inkerman	9
Tow Law	7
Fir Tree	2
Oakenshaw	0
Craigside	0

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

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 Billy Row 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 Billy Row compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Bishop Auckland Town	73
4	Willington and Hunwick	72
5	Tow Law	70
6	Spennymoor	65
7	Brandon	62
8	Tudhoe	59
9	Evenwood	55
10	Crook	53
11	West Auckland	52

Which road in Billy Row has the highest level of crime?

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