Crime Statistics for Wardley, Gateshead, Gateshead, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wardley in October 2024. There were a total of 254 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Wardley, 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 Crime73
Criminal Damage Arson46
Shoplifting28
Anti Social Behaviour28
Public Order26
Burglary13
Other Theft11
Other Crime8
Vehicle Crime8
Robbery4
Possession Of Weapons4
Drugs4
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime254

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 Wardley. 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 Wardley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Felling Shore (1.75 miles)715
Heworth (0.62 miles)681
Felling (1.24 miles)659
St Peter’s (1.75 miles)520
Old Fold (1.39 miles)410
Carr Hill (1.86 miles)407
Pelaw (0.88 miles)301
Bill Quay (0.62 miles)265
Wardley254
Beacon Lough (1.75 miles)224

4.03%
of Windy Nook and Whitehills residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Wardley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Heworth444
Felling Shore319
Felling254
St Peter’s191
Carr Hill164
Old Fold146
Pelaw100
Beacon Lough89
Bill Quay73
Wardley73

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

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 Wardley 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 Wardley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wardley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Wardley is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Deckham93
2Walker93
3Felling91
4Bridges90
5Windy Nook and Whitehills81
6High Fell77
7Hebburn South60
8Low Fell57
9Pelaw and Heworth56
10Fellgate and Hedworth55
11Wardley and Leam Lane50

Which road in Wardley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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