Crime Statistics for Great Lumley, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Lumley in August 2024. There were a total of 24 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 Great Lumley, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime9
Criminal Damage Arson6
Anti Social Behaviour4
Other Theft2
Shoplifting1
Burglary1
Public Order1
All Crime24

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 Great Lumley. 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 Great Lumley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chester-Le-Street (1.75 miles)238
Fence Houses (1.96 miles)110
High Dubmire (1.86 miles)66
Chilton Moor (1.86 miles)66
Colliery Row (1.86 miles)66
Bournmoor (1.75 miles)54
Plawsworth (2.24 miles)51
Chester Moor (1.86 miles)41
Leamside (2.24 miles)24
Great Lumley24

3.9%
of Sacriston residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Lumley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chester-Le-Street66
Fence Houses30
Chester Moor18
High Dubmire17
Chilton Moor17
Colliery Row17
Leamside13
Plawsworth11
Bournmoor10
Great Lumley9

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

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 Great Lumley 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 Great Lumley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Lumley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Great Lumley is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Chester-le-Street West Central76
2Sacriston72
3Hetton71
4Sherburn70
5Shiney Row70
6Houghton67
7Chester-le-Street East52
8Chester-le-Street North50
9Lumley47
10Chester-le-Street South31
11North Lodge30

Which road in Great Lumley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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