Crime Statistics for Close House, Shildon, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Close House in October 2024. There were a total of 233 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 Close House, 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	81
Anti Social Behaviour	58
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Burglary	12
Public Order	10
Other Crime	8
Other Theft	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Shoplifting	6
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	233

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 Close House. 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 Close House

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Etherley Dene (2.55 miles)	289
Bishop Auckland (1.96 miles)	279
South Church (1.39 miles)	273
Close House	217
Shildon (0.62 miles)	215
Tindale Crescent (2.48 miles)	197
New Coundon (1.96 miles)	159
Old Eldon (0.62 miles)	82
Grange Hill (1.24 miles)	53
Leasingthorne (1.75 miles)	40

Where are the most violent places near Close House?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Etherley Dene	98
Bishop Auckland	87
South Church	87
Close House	81
Shildon	79
Tindale Crescent	57
New Coundon	48
Leasingthorne	40
Old Eldon	31
Grange Hill	24

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

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 Close House 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 Close House compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Close House and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Close House have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Aycliffe North and Middridge.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Coundon	84
4	Aycliffe West	80
5	Bishop Auckland Town	73
6	Spennymoor	65
7	Chilton	62
8	Aycliffe East	60
9	West Auckland	52
10	Sedgefield	47
11	Aycliffe North and Middridge	45

Which road in Close House has the highest level of crime?

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