Crime Statistics for Esperley Lane Ends, Cockfield, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Esperley Lane Ends in October 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Violent Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	5

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 Esperley Lane Ends. 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 Esperley Lane Ends

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ramshaw (1.39 miles)	16
Evenwood (1.39 miles)	14
Toft Hill (2.78 miles)	13
Evenwood Gate (1.86 miles)	9
Staindrop (2.56 miles)	8
Esperley Lane Ends	5
Cockfield (0.62 miles)	5
South Side (2.24 miles)	1
Butterknowle (1.96 miles)	1
Morley (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Esperley Lane Ends?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Staindrop	4
Ramshaw	3
Evenwood	2
Evenwood Gate	1
Esperley Lane Ends	1
Cockfield	1
Morley	1
Toft Hill	0
South Side	0
Butterknowle	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Esperley Lane Ends?

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 Esperley Lane Ends 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 Esperley Lane Ends compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Coundon	84
4	Bishop Auckland Town	73
5	Spennymoor	65
6	Evenwood	55
7	Crook	53
8	West Auckland	52
9	Heighington & Coniscliffe	36
10	Barnard Castle West	21
11	Barnard Castle East	21

Which road in Esperley Lane Ends has the highest level of crime?

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