Crime Statistics for Edmondsley, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Edmondsley in August 2024. There were a total of 32 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Violent Crime	8
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Drugs	4
All Crime	32

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 Edmondsley. 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 Edmondsley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newfield (1.96 miles)	76
Pelton Fell (1.75 miles)	72
Nettlesworth (1.75 miles)	57
Tan Hills (1.75 miles)	57
Plawsworth (2.24 miles)	51
Sacriston (1.39 miles)	41
Grange Villa (1.86 miles)	38
Chester Moor (1.86 miles)	32
Craghead (1.39 miles)	23
Edmondsley	16

Where are the most violent places near Edmondsley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pelton Fell	28
Newfield	22
Chester Moor	18
Nettlesworth	17
Tan Hills	17
Plawsworth	11
Sacriston	11
Grange Villa	8
Edmondsley	8
Craghead	6

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

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 Edmondsley 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 Edmondsley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Edmondsley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Edmondsley is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Chester-le-Street West Central	76
3	Sacriston	72
4	Stanley	65
5	Tanfield	55
6	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
7	Chester-le-Street East	52
8	Chester-le-Street North	50
9	Chester-le-Street South	31
10	Lanchester	26
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Edmondsley has the highest level of crime?

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