Crime Statistics for Marley Hill, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Marley Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 23 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 Marley Hill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime11
Anti Social Behaviour8
Public Order1
Shoplifting1
Possession Of Weapons1
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime23

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Axwell Park (1.96 miles)60
Lobley Hill (2.24 miles)55
Sheep Hill (1.96 miles)41
Street Gate (0.88 miles)25
Fellside (1.39 miles)24
Marley Hill23
Tanfield (2.24 miles)19
Byermoor (1.39 miles)11
Crookgate Bank (1.75 miles)11
Causey (1.24 miles)2

2.73%
of Whickham South and Sunniside residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Marley Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Lobley Hill18
Axwell Park16
Street Gate11
Marley Hill11
Tanfield9
Fellside8
Sheep Hill6
Byermoor4
Crookgate Bank4
Causey0

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

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 Marley Hill 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 Marley Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Saltwell93
2Benwell & Scotswood81
3Lobley Hill and Bensham71
4Chowdene68
5Dunston and Teams66
6Stanley65
7Blaydon58
8Tanfield55
9Dunston Hill and Whickham East52
10Whickham North35
11Whickham South and Sunniside19

Which road in Marley Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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