Crime Statistics for Bill Quay, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2025

Is Bill Quay rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 155 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 Bill Quay, 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	65
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Shoplifting	10
Public Order	9
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	6
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	6
Robbery	5
Drugs	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	155

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 Bill Quay. 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 Bill Quay

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Byker (1.75 miles)	1090
Felling Shore (1.39 miles)	398
Heworth (0.88 miles)	378
St Peter’s (1.39 miles)	356
Pelaw (0.62 miles)	342
Old Fold (1.24 miles)	316
Felling (1.39 miles)	270
Wardley (0.62 miles)	265
Hebburn New Town (1.39 miles)	156
Bill Quay	155

Where are the most violent places near Bill Quay?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Byker	342
Heworth	169
St Peter’s	157
Pelaw	149
Felling Shore	123
Old Fold	123
Wardley	119
Felling	100
Hebburn New Town	95
Bill Quay	65

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

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 Bill Quay 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 Bill Quay compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bill Quay and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bill Quay is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Deckham	93
2	Walker	93
3	Felling	91
4	Bridges	90
5	Windy Nook and Whitehills	81
6	High Fell	77
7	Hebburn North	61
8	Hebburn South	60
9	Pelaw and Heworth	56
10	Fellgate and Hedworth	55
11	Wardley and Leam Lane	50

Which road in Bill Quay has the highest level of crime?

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