Crime Statistics for Tanfield Lea, Stanley, Durham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tanfield Lea in October 2024. There were a total of 81 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 Tanfield Lea, 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	28
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Burglary	6
Shoplifting	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	81

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 Tanfield Lea. 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 Tanfield Lea

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Stanley (1.39 miles)	369
Shield Row (1.39 miles)	260
Harperley (0.88 miles)	79
Tanfield Lea	79
Clough Dene (0.88 miles)	24
Tanfield (0.62 miles)	19
Tantobie (0.62 miles)	14
Hobson (0.88 miles)	12
Crookgate Bank (1.24 miles)	11
Causey (1.75 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Tanfield Lea?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Stanley	133
Shield Row	87
Harperley	51
Tanfield Lea	28
Clough Dene	22
Tanfield	9
Tantobie	6
Hobson	6
Crookgate Bank	4
Causey	0

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

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 Tanfield Lea 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 Tanfield Lea compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Craghead and South Moor	79
2	Annfield Plain	71
3	Stanley	65
4	Chopwell and Rowlands Gill	56
5	Tanfield	55
6	Consett North	54
7	Leadgate and Medomsley	53
8	Winlaton and High Spen	48
9	Burnopfield and Dipton	27
10	Lanchester	26
11	Whickham South and Sunniside	19

Which road in Tanfield Lea has the highest level of crime?

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