Crime Statistics for Path Head, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Path Head in October 2024. There were a total of 241 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 Path Head, 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	65
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Vehicle Crime	24
Other Crime	12
Shoplifting	12
Drugs	8
Public Order	8
Burglary	8
Other Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	241

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 Path Head. 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 Path Head

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bell’s Close (1.39 miles)	321
Blaydon Haughs (1.24 miles)	261
Path Head	224
Ryton (1.39 miles)	140
Tyne (1.07 miles)	110
Newburn (1.24 miles)	108
Blaydon (0.62 miles)	93
Crookhill (1.24 miles)	66
Axwell Park (1.75 miles)	60
Blaydon Burn (0.88 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near Path Head?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bell’s Close	114
Blaydon Haughs	71
Path Head	65
Ryton	56
Tyne	35
Newburn	33
Blaydon	25
Crookhill	24
Axwell Park	16
Blaydon Burn	5

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

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 Path Head 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 Path Head compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Benwell & Scotswood	81
2	West Fenham	78
3	Denton & Westerhope	68
4	Lemington	67
5	Blaydon	58
6	Dunston Hill and Whickham East	52
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 Path Head has the highest level of crime?

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