Crime Statistics for Leasingthorne, Howlish, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Leasingthorne in August 2024. There were a total of 46 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	18
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Vehicle Crime	3
Shoplifting	3
Other Theft	2
Public Order	1
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	46

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Shildon (2.24 miles)	287
New Coundon (1.96 miles)	246
Close House (1.75 miles)	156
Grange Hill (1.24 miles)	141
Spennymoor (2.48 miles)	125
Old Eldon (1.39 miles)	114
Chilton (1.86 miles)	51
Leasingthorne	46
Rushford Beck (1.69 miles)	43
Rushyford (1.96 miles)	12

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Shildon	96
New Coundon	87
Close House	80
Old Eldon	64
Grange Hill	44
Spennymoor	41
Chilton	41
Leasingthorne	18
Rushford Beck	11
Rushyford	5

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Coundon	84
4	Aycliffe West	80
5	Ferryhill	79
6	Bishop Auckland Town	73
7	Spennymoor	65
8	Chilton	62
9	Tudhoe	59
10	West Auckland	52
11	Aycliffe North and Middridge	45

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.