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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kenton in October 2024. There were a total of 607 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 Kenton, 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 Crime203
Anti Social Behaviour126
Public Order66
Criminal Damage Arson50
Shoplifting48
Other Theft34
Burglary30
Vehicle Crime21
Robbery8
Bicycle Theft6
Other Crime5
Drugs4
Possession Of Weapons4
Theft From The Person2
All Crime607

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 Kenton. 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 Kenton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blakelaw (0.88 miles)733
Spital Tongues (1.39 miles)691
Kenton Bar (0.62 miles)625
Kenton574
Fenham (1.24 miles)540
Gosforth (0.88 miles)483
Newbiggin Hall Estate (1.24 miles)414
Fawdon (0.62 miles)336
Kenton Bankfoot (1.39 miles)316
South Gosforth (1.24 miles)208

18.02%
of Blakelaw residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Kenton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blakelaw261
Kenton Bar240
Spital Tongues206
Kenton203
Gosforth169
Fenham163
Newbiggin Hall Estate131
Fawdon107
Kenton Bankfoot88
South Gosforth31

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

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 Kenton 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 Kenton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kenton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Kenton have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Gosforth.

#WardScore
1Blakelaw85
2Benwell & Scotswood81
3West Fenham78
4Wingrove71
5Denton & Westerhope68
6Kingston Park South & Newbiggin Hall66
7Kenton62
8Callerton & Throckley60
9Fawdon & West Gosforth59
10North Jesmond45
11Gosforth42

Which road in Kenton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0