Crime Statistics for South Hetton, Sunderland, Durham, 2025

Is South Hetton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 68 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 South Hetton, 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	37
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	68

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dalton-le-Dale (2.24 miles)	197
Greenhill (1.75 miles)	135
Hetton-Le-Hole (1.75 miles)	103
South Hetton	65
Great Eppleton (1.96 miles)	62
Easington Lane (0.88 miles)	58
Hetton-le-Hill (1.24 miles)	48
High Haswell (1.39 miles)	16
Haswell Plough (1.86 miles)	11
Haswell (1.24 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near South Hetton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dalton-le-Dale	66
Hetton-le-Hill	51
Hetton-Le-Hole	49
South Hetton	37
Greenhill	36
Easington Lane	26
Great Eppleton	25
High Haswell	24
Haswell Plough	8
Haswell	7

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

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 South Hetton 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 South Hetton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Hetton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Hetton is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Trimdon and Thornley	86
2	Shotton and South Hetton	84
3	Peterlee West	81
4	Easington	81
5	Murton	81
6	Hetton	71
7	Houghton	67
8	Copt Hill	67
9	Deneside	60
10	Belmont	48
11	Seaham	41

Which road in South Hetton has the highest level of crime?

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