Crime Statistics for Sherburn, Sherburn House, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sherburn in October 2024. There were a total of 195 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 Sherburn, 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	80
Shoplifting	28
Burglary	16
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Vehicle Crime	12
Public Order	12
Other Crime	11
Other Theft	8
All Crime	195

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. 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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Moor End (0.88 miles)	254
Gilesgate Moor (1.24 miles)	188
Belmont (0.88 miles)	152
Carrville (0.88 miles)	152
Sherburn Grange (0.62 miles)	104
Sherburn	98
Pittington (1.39 miles)	70
Hallgarth (1.39 miles)	42
Sherburn Hill (1.24 miles)	35
Shincliffe (1.75 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Sherburn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Sherburn	80
Moor End	63
Gilesgate Moor	52
Pittington	40
Belmont	36
Carrville	36
Sherburn Grange	31
Hallgarth	22
Sherburn Hill	20
Shincliffe	3

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Trimdon and Thornley	86
2	Shotton and South Hetton	84
3	Sherburn	70
4	Brandon	62
5	Deerness	55
6	Elvet and Gilesgate	54
7	Belmont	48
8	Coxhoe	47
9	Neville's Cross	27
10	Durham South	18
11	Framwellgate and Newton Hall	18

Which road in Sherburn has the highest level of crime?

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