Crime Statistics for Grange Villa, West Pelton, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grange Villa in September 2024. There were a total of 34 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour11
Violent Crime9
Criminal Damage Arson5
Vehicle Crime4
Other Theft3
Burglary2
All Crime34

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Grange Villa. 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 Grange Villa

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Pelaw (1.86 miles)192
Pelton Fell (1.39 miles)55
Pelton (1.39 miles)53
High Handenhold (0.62 miles)48
Newfield (0.62 miles)41
Grange Villa35
Beamish (0.88 miles)34
High Forge (1.39 miles)30
Craghead (1.75 miles)23
Edmondsley (1.86 miles)15

2.59%
of Chester-le-Street North residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Grange Villa?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Pelaw66
Pelton Fell25
High Handenhold22
Pelton20
High Forge15
Newfield14
Beamish13
Grange Villa9
Craghead6
Edmondsley6

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

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 Grange Villa 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 Grange Villa compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Grange Villa and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Grange Villa is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Craghead and South Moor79
2Chester-le-Street West Central76
3Pelton66
4Stanley65
5Lamesley64
6Birtley63
7Tanfield55
8Chester-le-Street East52
9Chester-le-Street North50
10Chester-le-Street South31
11North Lodge30

Which road in Grange Villa has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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