Crime Statistics for Nettlesworth, Kimblesworth and Plawsworth, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Nettlesworth in August 2024. There were a total of 57 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Nettlesworth, 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	17
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	5
Shoplifting	5
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	1
Drugs	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	57

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 Nettlesworth. 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 Nettlesworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newton Hall (1.75 miles)	78
Pelton Fell (2.48 miles)	72
Pity Me (1.39 miles)	71
Nettlesworth	57
Tan Hills	57
Plawsworth (0.62 miles)	51
Framwellgate Moor (1.96 miles)	50
Sacriston (0.62 miles)	41
Chester Moor (1.39 miles)	32
Edmondsley (1.75 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Nettlesworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Framwellgate Moor	31
Pelton Fell	28
Newton Hall	23
Pity Me	21
Chester Moor	18
Nettlesworth	17
Tan Hills	17
Plawsworth	11
Sacriston	11
Edmondsley	8

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

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 Nettlesworth 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 Nettlesworth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chester-le-Street West Central	76
2	Sacriston	72
3	Sherburn	70
4	Brandon	62
5	Deerness	55
6	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
7	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
8	Chester-le-Street East	52
9	Chester-le-Street South	31
10	Neville's Cross	27
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Nettlesworth has the highest level of crime?

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