Crime Statistics for Beacon Lough, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beacon Lough in September 2024. There were a total of 215 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 Beacon Lough, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime75
Anti Social Behaviour38
Criminal Damage Arson34
Shoplifting22
Vehicle Crime12
Burglary10
Public Order8
Other Theft7
Possession Of Weapons3
Other Crime3
Drugs3
All Crime215

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Carr Hill (1.39 miles)437
Felling (1.24 miles)330
Springwell (0.88 miles)257
Sheriff Hill (0.88 miles)226
Beacon Lough215
Chowdene (1.24 miles)169
Harlow Green (0.88 miles)127
Low Eighton (1.39 miles)117
Donwell (1.39 miles)117
Lamesley (1.39 miles)90

5.36%
of Lamesley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Beacon Lough?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Carr Hill146
Felling145
Sheriff Hill121
Springwell86
Beacon Lough75
Chowdene47
Low Eighton36
Harlow Green34
Donwell30
Lamesley17

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Beacon Lough?

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 Beacon Lough 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 Beacon Lough compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Beacon Lough and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Beacon Lough is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Deckham93
2Saltwell93
3Felling91
4Windy Nook and Whitehills81
5High Fell77
6Lobley Hill and Bensham71
7Chowdene68
8Lamesley64
9Low Fell57
10Washington West40
11Washington South32

Which road in Beacon Lough has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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