Crime Statistics for Greatham, Hartlepool, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Greatham in September 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 Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Violent Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	4
All Crime	23

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hartlepool (3.17 miles)	829
Port Clarence (3.73 miles)	635
Cargo Fleet (4.52 miles)	581
Norton (4.85 miles)	435
Billingham (3.1 miles)	220
Newton Bewley (1.96 miles)	116
Greatham	12
Brierton (2.24 miles)	9
Dalton Piercy (3.1 miles)	3
Elwick (3.97 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Greatham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hartlepool	229
Port Clarence	186
Cargo Fleet	183
Norton	154
Billingham	68
Newton Bewley	41
Greatham	4
Brierton	1
Dalton Piercy	1
Elwick	1

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

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 Greatham 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 Greatham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Victoria	89
2	Burn Valley	85
3	Foggy Furze	84
4	Manor House	72
5	Billingham East	57
6	Billingham Central	57
7	Seaton	55
8	Fens and Rossmere	54
9	Billingham South	37
10	Billingham North	27
11	Billingham West	18

Which road in Greatham has the highest level of crime?

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