Crime Statistics for High Etherley, Toft Hill, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for High Etherley in October 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Other Theft.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour3
Other Theft2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Public Order1
Burglary1
All Crime9

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 High Etherley. 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 High Etherley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Etherley Dene (1.86 miles)289
Gaunless (2.18 miles)207
Tindale Crescent (1.96 miles)197
Ramshaw (1.75 miles)16
Evenwood (1.96 miles)14
Toft Hill (0.62 miles)13
High Etherley9
Escomb (1.75 miles)9
Wear (1.67 miles)2
High Grange (1.96 miles)1

4.11%
of West Auckland residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near High Etherley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Etherley Dene98
Tindale Crescent57
Gaunless52
Escomb5
Ramshaw3
Evenwood2
Toft Hill0
High Etherley0
Wear0
High Grange0

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

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 High Etherley 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 High Etherley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Shildon and Dene Valley88
2Woodhouse Close85
3Coundon84
4Aycliffe West80
5Bishop Auckland Town73
6Tow Law70
7Spennymoor65
8Evenwood55
9Crook53
10West Auckland52
11Barnard Castle East21

Which road in High Etherley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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