Crime Statistics for Sherburn Hill, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sherburn Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 35 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 Sherburn Hill, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Drugs	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Other Theft	1
Public Order	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	35

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 Sherburn Hill. 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 Sherburn Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moor End (1.96 miles)	254
Belmont (1.96 miles)	152
Sherburn Grange (1.86 miles)	104
Sherburn (1.24 miles)	98
Pittington (1.39 miles)	70
Hallgarth (0.62 miles)	42
Sherburn Hill	35
Littletown (0.88 miles)	21
High Moorsley (1.86 miles)	10
Old Cassop (1.86 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Sherburn Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sherburn	80
Moor End	63
Pittington	40
Belmont	36
Sherburn Grange	31
Hallgarth	22
Sherburn Hill	20
Littletown	11
High Moorsley	4
Old Cassop	1

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

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 Sherburn Hill 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 Sherburn Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sherburn Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sherburn Hill is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Trimdon and Thornley	86
2	Shotton and South Hetton	84
3	Easington	81
4	Murton	81
5	Hetton	71
6	Sherburn	70
7	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
8	Belmont	48
9	Coxhoe	47
10	Neville's Cross	27
11	Durham South	18

Which road in Sherburn Hill has the highest level of crime?

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