Crime Statistics for Shotton Colliery, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shotton Colliery in October 2024. There were a total of 117 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	36
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Violent Crime	25
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	3
Public Order	3
Burglary	2
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	117

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 Shotton Colliery. 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 Shotton Colliery

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Thorpe (2.24 miles)	166
Shotton Colliery	117
Shotton (1.39 miles)	101
Haswell Moor (0.88 miles)	83
Haswell (2.24 miles)	30
Haswell Plough (1.75 miles)	29
Easington (2.24 miles)	27
Eden Vale (2.63 miles)	24
High Haswell (2.63 miles)	16
Castle Eden (2.63 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Shotton Colliery?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Thorpe	59
Haswell	37
Shotton	26
Shotton Colliery	25
Haswell Plough	16
Haswell Moor	11
High Haswell	11
Easington	10
Eden Vale	6
Castle Eden	5

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

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 Shotton Colliery 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 Shotton Colliery compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shotton Colliery and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shotton Colliery is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peterlee East	96
2	Horden	90
3	Trimdon and Thornley	86
4	Shotton and South Hetton	84
5	Wingate	83
6	Peterlee West	81
7	Easington	81
8	Murton	81
9	Passfield	53
10	Bishop Middleham and Cornforth	51
11	Coxhoe	47

Which road in Shotton Colliery has the highest level of crime?

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