Crime Statistics for Catchgate, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Catchgate in August 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 Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Catchgate, 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 Crime92
Anti Social Behaviour40
Criminal Damage Arson32
Burglary20
Other Crime16
Drugs16
Other Theft16
Public Order8
Vehicle Crime8
Shoplifting8
Theft From The Person4
Robbery4
All Crime264

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Catchgate. 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 Catchgate

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Catchgate132
South Moor (1.39 miles)102
New Kyo (0.88 miles)71
Annfield Plain (0.88 miles)68
Harperley (0.88 miles)66
Harelaw66
Greencroft (0.62 miles)59
Tanfield Lea (1.75 miles)30
Tantobie (1.39 miles)19
Stony Heap (1.39 miles)4

3.17%
of Annfield Plain residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Catchgate?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Catchgate92
South Moor52
New Kyo35
Annfield Plain33
Harperley28
Harelaw23
Greencroft18
Tanfield Lea9
Tantobie8
Stony Heap3

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

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 Catchgate 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 Catchgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Catchgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Catchgate is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Craghead and South Moor79
2Annfield Plain71
3Consett South68
4Stanley65
5Tanfield55
6Consett North54
7Leadgate and Medomsley53
8Delves Lane52
9Benfieldside39
10Burnopfield and Dipton27
11Lanchester26

Which road in Catchgate has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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