Crime Statistics for Ryton, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ryton in October 2024. There were a total of 280 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	72
Violent Crime	56
Anti Social Behaviour	48
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Burglary	20
Public Order	20
Other Crime	20
Other Theft	8
Vehicle Crime	8
All Crime	280

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 Ryton. 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 Ryton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Path Head (1.39 miles)	224
Ryton	140
Tyne (1.14 miles)	110
Newburn (1.39 miles)	108
Crookhill (0.62 miles)	66
Bar Moor (0.62 miles)	61
Clara Vale (1.24 miles)	36
Crawcrook (1.39 miles)	35
Bank Top (1.39 miles)	33
Blaydon Burn (1.39 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near Ryton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Path Head	65
Ryton	56
Tyne	35
Newburn	33
Crookhill	24
Bank Top	13
Bar Moor	12
Clara Vale	8
Crawcrook	7
Blaydon Burn	5

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

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 Ryton 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 Ryton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Benwell & Scotswood	81
2	West Fenham	78
3	Lemington	67
4	Blaydon	58
5	Winlaton and High Spen	48
6	Prudhoe South	41
7	Ryton, Crookhill and Stella	41
8	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
9	Chapel	28
10	Prudhoe North	27
11	Ponteland South with Heddon	4

Which road in Ryton has the highest level of crime?

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