Crime Statistics for Little Thorpe, Peterlee, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Thorpe in September 2024. There were a total of 176 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 Little Thorpe, 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	63
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Shoplifting	20
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Other Theft	13
Public Order	13
Other Crime	10
Burglary	7
Vehicle Crime	7
Drugs	4
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	176

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 Little Thorpe. 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 Little Thorpe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Horden (1.39 miles)	363
Little Thorpe	176
Easington Colliery (0.88 miles)	129
Shotton Colliery (2.24 miles)	91
Haswell Moor (2.55 miles)	70
Shotton (1.96 miles)	67
Blackhall Colliery (2.63 miles)	58
Easington (0.88 miles)	35
Haswell Plough (3.1 miles)	14
Hesleden (2.78 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Little Thorpe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Horden	130
Little Thorpe	63
Easington Colliery	42
Shotton Colliery	25
Blackhall Colliery	20
Shotton	19
Haswell Moor	15
Easington	11
Haswell Plough	8
Hesleden	2

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

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 Little Thorpe 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 Little Thorpe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Thorpe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Thorpe is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peterlee East	96
2	Horden	90
3	Trimdon and Thornley	86
4	Wingate	83
5	Peterlee West	81
6	Easington	81
7	Murton	81
8	Dawdon	68
9	Deneside	60
10	Passfield	53
11	Seaham	41

Which road in Little Thorpe has the highest level of crime?

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