Crime Statistics for Old Burdon, Sunderland, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Old Burdon in October 2024. There were a total of 2 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Drugs.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	2

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Old Burdon. 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 Old Burdon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Silksworth (1.96 miles)	204
Tunstall (1.86 miles)	192
Greenhill (1.96 miles)	147
Doxford Park (1.39 miles)	104
Stony Gate (1.96 miles)	86
Northlea (1.86 miles)	85
Ryhope (1.75 miles)	83
Great Eppleton (1.75 miles)	68
Burdon (0.62 miles)	31
Old Burdon	2

Where are the most violent places near Old Burdon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ryhope	54
Tunstall	51
New Silksworth	43
Northlea	35
Greenhill	31
Stony Gate	30
Great Eppleton	26
Doxford Park	17
Burdon	10
Old Burdon	0

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

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 Old Burdon 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 Old Burdon compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Old Burdon and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Old Burdon have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Murton.

#	Ward	Score
1	Murton	81
2	Sandhill	75
3	Dawdon	68
4	Houghton	67
5	Copt Hill	67
6	Ryhope	66
7	Silksworth	60
8	Deneside	60
9	St Chad's	56
10	Seaham	41
11	Doxford	32

Which road in Old Burdon has the highest level of crime?

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