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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Jesmond in October 2024. There were a total of 1324 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	382
Violent Crime	248
Shoplifting	180
Other Theft	96
Criminal Damage Arson	92
Vehicle Crime	80
Public Order	80
Bicycle Theft	50
Drugs	38
Theft From The Person	34
Burglary	20
Possession Of Weapons	16
Other Crime	6
Robbery	2
All Crime	1324

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 Jesmond. 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 Jesmond

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newcastle upon Tyne (1.24 miles)	1413
Jesmond	1290
Byker (1.75 miles)	1111
Spital Tongues (1.39 miles)	691
Heaton (1.24 miles)	587
Kenton (1.96 miles)	574
Fenham (1.96 miles)	540
Gosforth (1.75 miles)	483
Longbenton (1.39 miles)	220
South Gosforth (0.88 miles)	208

Where are the most violent places near Jesmond?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newcastle upon Tyne	409
Byker	337
Jesmond	248
Spital Tongues	206
Kenton	203
Gosforth	169
Fenham	163
Heaton	149
Longbenton	50
South Gosforth	31

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

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 Jesmond 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 Jesmond compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Byker	95
2	Monument	76
3	Arthur's Hill	75
4	Wingrove	71
5	Ouseburn	67
6	Heaton	62
7	South Jesmond	49
8	North Jesmond	45
9	Gosforth	42
10	Dene & South Gosforth	29
11	Manor Park	26

Which road in Jesmond has the highest level of crime?

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