Crime Statistics for Binchester Blocks, Berry Edge, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Binchester Blocks in October 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	2

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 Binchester Blocks. 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 Binchester Blocks

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tudhoe Grange (2.24 miles)	185
Spennymoor (1.96 miles)	171
New Coundon (1.24 miles)	159
Grange Hill (1.96 miles)	53
Toronto (2.24 miles)	27
Byers Green (1.24 miles)	10
New Hunwick (2.48 miles)	10
Page Bank (1.96 miles)	6
Binchester Blocks	2
Todhills (0.88 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Binchester Blocks?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tudhoe Grange	54
New Coundon	48
Spennymoor	46
Grange Hill	24
Toronto	10
New Hunwick	4
Byers Green	3
Page Bank	1
Binchester Blocks	1
Todhills	0

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

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 Binchester Blocks 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 Binchester Blocks compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Binchester Blocks and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Binchester Blocks is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Coundon	84
4	Ferryhill	79
5	Bishop Auckland Town	73
6	Willington and Hunwick	72
7	Spennymoor	65
8	Chilton	62
9	Tudhoe	59
10	Crook	53
11	West Auckland	52

Which road in Binchester Blocks has the highest level of crime?

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