Crime Statistics for Harperley, West Kyo, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harperley in September 2024. There were a total of 120 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 Harperley, 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	57
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Vehicle Crime	8
Public Order	8
Drugs	4
Other Theft	4
Burglary	4
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	120

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 Harperley. 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 Harperley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Stanley (1.39 miles)	223
Harperley	114
New Kyo (1.24 miles)	68
Annfield Plain (1.24 miles)	68
Catchgate (0.88 miles)	56
Tanfield Lea (0.88 miles)	49
Harelaw (0.88 miles)	44
Hobson (1.24 miles)	43
Tantobie (0.62 miles)	31
Clough Dene (1.24 miles)	22

Where are the most violent places near Harperley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Stanley	77
Harperley	57
Harelaw	34
New Kyo	33
Annfield Plain	33
Catchgate	24
Tanfield Lea	21
Hobson	19
Clough Dene	18
Tantobie	11

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

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 Harperley 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 Harperley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Annfield Plain	71
3	Consett South	68
4	Stanley	65
5	Tanfield	55
6	Consett North	54
7	Leadgate and Medomsley	53
8	Delves Lane	52
9	Benfieldside	39
10	Burnopfield and Dipton	27
11	Lanchester	26

Which road in Harperley has the highest level of crime?

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