Crime Statistics for High Handenhold, West Pelton, Durham, 2024

Is High Handenhold rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 42 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 High Handenhold, 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 Crime13
Criminal Damage Arson11
Anti Social Behaviour7
Burglary3
Vehicle Crime2
Other Theft2
Public Order2
Other Crime1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime42

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shield Row (1.86 miles)202
South Pelaw (1.96 miles)178
Pelton (1.24 miles)85
Newfield (0.88 miles)71
Pelton Fell (1.75 miles)67
Beamish (0.62 miles)44
High Handenhold42
Grange Villa (0.62 miles)35
High Forge (0.88 miles)12
Kibblesworth (1.96 miles)8

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 High Handenhold?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Pelaw60
Shield Row59
Pelton Fell32
Pelton28
Newfield25
Beamish14
High Handenhold13
Grange Villa11
Kibblesworth5
High Forge4

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

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 Handenhold 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 Handenhold compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to High Handenhold and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.High Handenhold 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 High Handenhold has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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