Crime Statistics for Leasingthorne, Howlish, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Leasingthorne in September 2024. There were a total of 40 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 Leasingthorne, 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 Crime17
Criminal Damage Arson10
Anti Social Behaviour4
Other Crime3
Public Order2
Shoplifting2
Burglary1
Other Theft1
All Crime40

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 Leasingthorne. 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 Leasingthorne

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

LocationCrime Incidents
New Coundon (1.96 miles)324
Spennymoor (2.48 miles)208
Close House (1.75 miles)156
Grange Hill (1.24 miles)115
Shildon (2.24 miles)113
Old Eldon (1.39 miles)105
Rushford Beck (1.69 miles)84
Chilton (1.86 miles)51
Leasingthorne40
Rushyford (1.96 miles)34

2.76%
of Coundon residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Leasingthorne?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
New Coundon132
Shildon98
Spennymoor87
Close House80
Grange Hill61
Old Eldon49
Chilton41
Rushford Beck27
Leasingthorne17
Rushyford13

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

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 Leasingthorne 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 Leasingthorne compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Shildon and Dene Valley88
2Woodhouse Close85
3Coundon84
4Aycliffe West80
5Ferryhill79
6Bishop Auckland Town73
7Spennymoor65
8Chilton62
9Tudhoe59
10West Auckland52
11Aycliffe North and Middridge45

Which road in Leasingthorne has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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