Crime Statistics for Crookhill, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crookhill in September 2024. There were a total of 286 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	96
Violent Crime	64
Anti Social Behaviour	40
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Other Crime	14
Other Theft	12
Burglary	8
Public Order	8
Possession Of Weapons	8
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	4
All Crime	286

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 Crookhill. 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 Crookhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blaydon (1.39 miles)	148
Crookhill	144
Path Head (1.24 miles)	130
Bar Moor (0.88 miles)	91
Ryton (0.62 miles)	71
Blaydon Burn (0.88 miles)	45
Crawcrook (1.24 miles)	30
Clara Vale (1.39 miles)	26
Greenside (0.88 miles)	18
Ryton Woodside (0.88 miles)	18

Where are the most violent places near Crookhill?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Crookhill 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
Bar Moor	26
Ryton	17
Blaydon Burn	12
Crawcrook	9
Clara Vale	9
Greenside	5
Ryton Woodside	5

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

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 Crookhill 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 Crookhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Crookhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Crookhill is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Benwell & Scotswood	81
2	Lemington	67
3	Blaydon	58
4	Winlaton and High Spen	48
5	Prudhoe South	41
6	Ryton, Crookhill and Stella	41
7	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
8	Whickham North	35
9	Chapel	28
10	Prudhoe North	27
11	Ponteland South with Heddon	4

Which road in Crookhill has the highest level of crime?

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