Crime Statistics for Langley Park, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Langley Park in September 2024. There were a total of 93 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 Langley Park, 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	36
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Shoplifting	12
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Other Crime	8
Public Order	8
Burglary	4
All Crime	93

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 Langley Park. 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 Langley Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bearpark (1.39 miles)	69
Browney (2.29 miles)	65
Broompark (2.63 miles)	52
Sacriston (2.63 miles)	50
Langley Park	48
Esh Winning (2.24 miles)	37
Waterhouses (2.63 miles)	27
Wall Nook (0.62 miles)	23
Esh (1.24 miles)	8
New Brancepeth (1.96 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Langley Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Broompark	63
Langley Park	36
Bearpark	32
Browney	26
Sacriston	13
Esh Winning	12
Waterhouses	9
Wall Nook	9
Esh	3
New Brancepeth	2

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

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 Langley Park 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 Langley Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Langley Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Langley Park is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Sacriston	72
3	Willington and Hunwick	72
4	Brandon	62
5	Deerness	55
6	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
7	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
8	Neville's Cross	27
9	Lanchester	26
10	Durham South	18
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Langley Park has the highest level of crime?

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