Crime Statistics for Dalton-le-Dale, Murton, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dalton-le-Dale in August 2024. There were a total of 130 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dalton-le-Dale, 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	36
Shoplifting	34
Burglary	12
Other Theft	11
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Public Order	6
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	130

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 Dalton-le-Dale. 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 Dalton-le-Dale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenhill (0.62 miles)	258
Northlea (1.96 miles)	160
Parkside (1.39 miles)	134
Dalton-le-Dale	130
Cold Hesledon	130
Easington Lane (2.55 miles)	106
Great Eppleton (2.56 miles)	90
Easington (2.56 miles)	55
South Hetton (2.24 miles)	55
Old Burdon (2.24 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Dalton-le-Dale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greenhill	132
Northlea	62
Parkside	42
Easington Lane	40
Dalton-le-Dale	36
Cold Hesledon	36
Great Eppleton	36
South Hetton	28
Easington	18
Old Burdon	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Dalton-le-Dale?

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 Dalton-le-Dale 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 Dalton-le-Dale compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Horden	90
2	Shotton and South Hetton	84
3	Peterlee West	81
4	Easington	81
5	Murton	81
6	Dawdon	68
7	Houghton	67
8	Ryhope	66
9	Deneside	60
10	Seaham	41
11	Doxford	32

Which road in Dalton-le-Dale has the highest level of crime?

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