Crime Statistics for High Haswell, Haswell Plough, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for High Haswell in August 2024. There were a total of 14 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 Haswell, 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	10
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Public Order	1
All Crime	14

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 High Haswell. 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 Haswell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Easington Lane (1.86 miles)	106
South Hetton (1.39 miles)	55
Haswell Moor (1.75 miles)	47
Hallgarth (1.86 miles)	35
Haswell Plough (0.88 miles)	32
Hetton-le-Hill (1.39 miles)	31
Sherburn Hill (1.96 miles)	29
Littletown (1.24 miles)	17
High Haswell	14
Haswell (0.62 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near High Haswell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Easington Lane	40
South Hetton	28
Hallgarth	19
Haswell Plough	17
Hetton-le-Hill	15
Sherburn Hill	15
Haswell Moor	10
High Haswell	10
Littletown	7
Haswell	7

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

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 Haswell 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 Haswell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to High Haswell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.High Haswell is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peterlee East	96
2	Trimdon and Thornley	86
3	Shotton and South Hetton	84
4	Peterlee West	81
5	Easington	81
6	Murton	81
7	Hetton	71
8	Sherburn	70
9	Houghton	67
10	Passfield	53
11	Belmont	48

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

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