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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Nettlesworth in September 2024. There were a total of 56 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime16
Shoplifting13
Criminal Damage Arson8
Anti Social Behaviour6
Public Order4
Other Theft3
Burglary3
Vehicle Crime1
Possession Of Weapons1
Other Crime1
All Crime56

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Newton Hall (1.75 miles)110
Pity Me (1.39 miles)107
Framwellgate Moor (1.96 miles)94
Nettlesworth56
Pelton Fell (2.48 miles)55
Sacriston (0.62 miles)50
Tan Hills39
Plawsworth (0.62 miles)36
Chester Moor (1.39 miles)32
Edmondsley (1.75 miles)15

3.44%
of Esh and Witton Gilbert residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Pity Me38
Newton Hall37
Framwellgate Moor35
Tan Hills26
Pelton Fell25
Chester Moor18
Nettlesworth16
Sacriston13
Plawsworth8
Edmondsley6

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.

#WardScore
1Chester-le-Street West Central76
2Sacriston72
3Sherburn70
4Brandon62
5Deerness55
6Elvet and Gilesgate54
7Esh and Witton Gilbert52
8Chester-le-Street East52
9Chester-le-Street South31
10Neville's Cross27
11Framwellgate and Newton Hall18

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 this marker.

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