Crime Statistics for Felling, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Felling in August 2024. There were a total of 436 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 Felling, 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	145
Anti Social Behaviour	65
Criminal Damage Arson	51
Shoplifting	42
Public Order	34
Other Theft	30
Vehicle Crime	28
Burglary	18
Other Crime	14
Drugs	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	436

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Peter’s (1.24 miles)	804
Saltwell (1.24 miles)	516
Felling Shore (1.24 miles)	470
Carr Hill (0.62 miles)	437
Old Fold (0.62 miles)	354
Felling	330
Heworth (0.62 miles)	307
Pelaw (0.88 miles)	291
Sheriff Hill (0.88 miles)	226
Wardley (1.24 miles)	206

Where are the most violent places near Felling?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Peter’s	275
Saltwell	230
Felling Shore	149
Carr Hill	146
Felling	145
Heworth	134
Sheriff Hill	121
Old Fold	117
Pelaw	91
Wardley	59

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

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 Felling 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 Felling compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Felling and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Felling have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Pelaw and Heworth.

#	Ward	Score
1	Deckham	93
2	Walker	93
3	Saltwell	93
4	Felling	91
5	Bridges	90
6	Windy Nook and Whitehills	81
7	High Fell	77
8	Lobley Hill and Bensham	71
9	Chowdene	68
10	Low Fell	57
11	Pelaw and Heworth	56

Which road in Felling has the highest level of crime?

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