Crime Statistics for Old Fold, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Old Fold in October 2024. There were a total of 413 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 Old Fold, 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	146
Anti Social Behaviour	57
Criminal Damage Arson	49
Public Order	32
Burglary	28
Other Theft	26
Vehicle Crime	23
Drugs	17
Shoplifting	13
Other Crime	5
Theft From The Person	5
Robbery	5
Possession Of Weapons	5
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	413

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 Old Fold. 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 Old Fold

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Byker (1.24 miles)	1111
Felling Shore (0.62 miles)	715
Heworth (0.88 miles)	681
Felling (0.62 miles)	659
St Peter’s (0.62 miles)	520
Old Fold	410
Carr Hill (0.88 miles)	407
Pelaw (0.62 miles)	301
Bill Quay (1.24 miles)	265
Wardley (1.39 miles)	254

Where are the most violent places near Old Fold?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Heworth	444
Byker	337
Felling Shore	319
Felling	254
St Peter’s	191
Carr Hill	164
Old Fold	146
Pelaw	100
Bill Quay	73
Wardley	73

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

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 Old Fold 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 Old Fold compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Old Fold and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Old Fold is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Byker	95
2	Deckham	93
3	Walker	93
4	Saltwell	93
5	Felling	91
6	Bridges	90
7	Windy Nook and Whitehills	81
8	High Fell	77
9	Ouseburn	67
10	Low Fell	57
11	Pelaw and Heworth	56

Which road in Old Fold has the highest level of crime?

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