Crime Statistics for Bensham, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bensham in September 2024. There were a total of 387 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 Bensham, 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	129
Anti Social Behaviour	75
Public Order	38
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Burglary	23
Vehicle Crime	23
Other Theft	21
Other Crime	12
Shoplifting	11
Drugs	11
Possession Of Weapons	5
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	387

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 Bensham. 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 Bensham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newcastle upon Tyne (1.39 miles)	1140
Carr Hill (1.39 miles)	437
Bensham	387
Saltwell (0.88 miles)	384
Teams (0.62 miles)	219
Team Valley (1.24 miles)	202
Dunston (1.24 miles)	197
Dunston Hill (1.39 miles)	127
Gateshead (1.24 miles)	117
Lobley Hill (1.39 miles)	44

Where are the most violent places near Bensham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newcastle upon Tyne	372
Carr Hill	146
Saltwell	131
Bensham	129
Team Valley	75
Teams	61
Dunston	50
Gateshead	40
Dunston Hill	32
Lobley Hill	14

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

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 Bensham 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 Bensham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Saltwell	93
2	Elswick	88
3	High Fell	77
4	Monument	76
5	Arthur's Hill	75
6	Lobley Hill and Bensham	71
7	Ouseburn	67
8	Dunston and Teams	66
9	Low Fell	57
10	Dunston Hill and Whickham East	52
11	Whickham South and Sunniside	19

Which road in Bensham has the highest level of crime?

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