Crime Statistics for Old Eldon, Eldon, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Old Eldon in August 2024. There were a total of 152 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 Old Eldon, 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	64
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Public Order	10
Burglary	7
Shoplifting	5
Other Theft	4
Drugs	4
Robbery	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	152

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 Old Eldon. 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 Eldon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shildon (0.88 miles)	287
Bishop Auckland (2.56 miles)	266
South Church (1.96 miles)	261
New Coundon (2.24 miles)	246
Close House (0.62 miles)	156
Grange Hill (1.39 miles)	141
Old Eldon	114
Leasingthorne (1.39 miles)	46
Rushyford (2.55 miles)	12
Redworth (2.48 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Old Eldon?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Old Eldon 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
South Church	72
Old Eldon	64
Bishop Auckland	57
Grange Hill	44
Leasingthorne	18
Rushyford	5
Redworth	2

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

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 Eldon 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 Eldon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Shildon and Dene Valley	88
2	Woodhouse Close	85
3	Coundon	84
4	Aycliffe West	80
5	Bishop Auckland Town	73
6	Spennymoor	65
7	Chilton	62
8	Aycliffe East	60
9	West Auckland	52
10	Sedgefield	47
11	Aycliffe North and Middridge	45

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

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