Crime Statistics for Blaydon Burn, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blaydon Burn in September 2024. There were a total of 52 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	14
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Violent Crime	12
Vehicle Crime	7
Public Order	4
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	52

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 Blaydon Burn. 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 Blaydon Burn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tyne (1.73 miles)	169
Blaydon (0.62 miles)	148
Crookhill (0.88 miles)	144
Path Head (0.88 miles)	130
Bar Moor (1.75 miles)	91
Ryton (1.39 miles)	71
Blaydon Burn	45
Greenside (1.24 miles)	18
Ryton Woodside (1.24 miles)	18
Barlow (1.39 miles)	18

Where are the most violent places near Blaydon Burn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crookhill	64
Blaydon	53
Path Head	40
Tyne	33
Bar Moor	26
Ryton	17
Blaydon Burn	12
Barlow	10
Greenside	5
Ryton Woodside	5

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

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 Blaydon Burn 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 Blaydon Burn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Benwell & Scotswood	81
2	West Fenham	78
3	Lemington	67
4	Blaydon	58
5	Chopwell and Rowlands Gill	56
6	Winlaton and High Spen	48
7	Ryton, Crookhill and Stella	41
8	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
9	Whickham North	35
10	Chapel	28
11	Ponteland South with Heddon	4

Which road in Blaydon Burn has the highest level of crime?

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