Crime Statistics for Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gosforth in October 2024. There were a total of 517 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 Gosforth, 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 Crime169
Anti Social Behaviour88
Criminal Damage Arson76
Public Order41
Other Theft36
Shoplifting35
Burglary28
Vehicle Crime16
Other Crime10
Possession Of Weapons6
Bicycle Theft6
Robbery4
Drugs2
All Crime517

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 Gosforth. 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 Gosforth

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Jesmond (1.75 miles)1290
Blakelaw (1.75 miles)733
Spital Tongues (1.86 miles)691
Kenton Bar (1.39 miles)625
Kenton (0.88 miles)574
Gosforth483
Fawdon (0.62 miles)336
Kenton Bankfoot (1.86 miles)316
Longbenton (1.86 miles)220
South Gosforth (0.88 miles)208

12.79%
of Fawdon & West Gosforth residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gosforth?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blakelaw261
Jesmond248
Kenton Bar240
Spital Tongues206
Kenton203
Gosforth169
Fawdon107
Kenton Bankfoot88
Longbenton50
South Gosforth31

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

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 Gosforth 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 Gosforth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Blakelaw85
2Wingrove71
3Denton & Westerhope68
4Kingston Park South & Newbiggin Hall66
5Kenton62
6Callerton & Throckley60
7Fawdon & West Gosforth59
8South Jesmond49
9North Jesmond45
10Gosforth42
11Dene & South Gosforth29

Which road in Gosforth has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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