Crime Statistics for Ferryhill Station, Chilton Lane, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ferryhill Station in October 2024. There were a total of 45 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ferryhill Station, 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	13
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Burglary	7
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Shoplifting	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	2
Other Theft	2
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	45

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 Ferryhill Station. 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 Ferryhill Station

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ferryhill (0.88 miles)	133
Great Chilton (0.88 miles)	62
Chilton (1.75 miles)	61
Cornforth (1.96 miles)	51
Chilton Lane (0.62 miles)	49
Ferryhill Station	45
Rushford Beck (1.75 miles)	38
Mainsforth (0.62 miles)	34
Rushyford (2.24 miles)	17
Bishop Middleham (1.86 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Ferryhill Station?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ferryhill	42
Great Chilton	22
Chilton	22
Cornforth	20
Chilton Lane	13
Ferryhill Station	13
Rushford Beck	13
Mainsforth	10
Rushyford	8
Bishop Middleham	4

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

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 Ferryhill Station 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 Ferryhill Station compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Coundon	84
2	Aycliffe West	80
3	Ferryhill	79
4	Bishop Auckland Town	73
5	Spennymoor	65
6	Chilton	62
7	Tudhoe	59
8	Bishop Middleham and Cornforth	51
9	Sedgefield	47
10	Coxhoe	47
11	Aycliffe North and Middridge	45

Which road in Ferryhill Station has the highest level of crime?

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