Crime Statistics for South Pelaw, Chester-le-Street, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Pelaw in August 2024. There were a total of 219 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 South Pelaw, 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	58
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Shoplifting	33
Burglary	22
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Other Theft	14
Public Order	12
Other Crime	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	219

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 South Pelaw. 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 Pelaw

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chester-Le-Street (0.88 miles)	282
South Pelaw	219
Harraton (2.24 miles)	115
Newfield (1.24 miles)	76
Pelton (0.88 miles)	75
Pelton Fell (0.88 miles)	72
Barley Mow (1.39 miles)	61
High Handenhold (1.96 miles)	41
Grange Villa (1.86 miles)	38
Chester Moor (1.86 miles)	32

Where are the most violent places near South Pelaw?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chester-Le-Street	131
South Pelaw	58
Harraton	32
Pelton Fell	28
Newfield	22
Pelton	19
Barley Mow	19
Chester Moor	18
High Handenhold	10
Grange Villa	8

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

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 Pelaw 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 Pelaw compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chester-le-Street West Central	76
2	Sacriston	72
3	Pelton	66
4	Lamesley	64
5	Birtley	63
6	Chester-le-Street East	52
7	Chester-le-Street North	50
8	Lumley	47
9	Washington South	32
10	Chester-le-Street South	31
11	North Lodge	30

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

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