Crime Statistics for South Stanley, South Moor, Durham, 2025

Is South Stanley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 205 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 Stanley, 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	75
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Shoplifting	22
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Crime	11
Public Order	10
Burglary	9
Other Theft	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	205

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 Stanley. 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 Stanley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Stanley	205
Shield Row (0.88 miles)	183
South Moor (0.88 miles)	106
New Kyo (1.39 miles)	76
Annfield Plain (1.39 miles)	76
Harperley (1.39 miles)	72
Harelaw (1.86 miles)	66
Tantobie (1.75 miles)	62
Tanfield Lea (1.39 miles)	49
Craghead (1.75 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near South Stanley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Stanley	75
Shield Row	65
Tantobie	40
South Moor	38
New Kyo	25
Annfield Plain	25
Harperley	24
Harelaw	23
Tanfield Lea	20
Craghead	6

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

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 Stanley 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 Stanley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Stanley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in South Stanley have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Lanchester.

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Annfield Plain	71
3	Pelton	66
4	Stanley	65
5	Tanfield	55
6	Consett North	54
7	Esh and Witton Gilbert	52
8	Chester-le-Street North	50
9	Chester-le-Street South	31
10	Burnopfield and Dipton	27
11	Lanchester	26

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

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