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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newburn in October 2024. There were a total of 108 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 Newburn, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	33
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Burglary	5
Shoplifting	5
Public Order	5
Other Crime	5
Other Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	108

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 Newburn. 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 Newburn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bell’s Close (1.39 miles)	321
Blaydon Haughs (1.75 miles)	261
Path Head (1.24 miles)	224
Ryton (1.39 miles)	140
North Walbottle (1.24 miles)	111
Tyne (0.26 miles)	110
Newburn	108
Blaydon (1.86 miles)	93
Crookhill (1.75 miles)	66
Callerton (1.86 miles)	65

Where are the most violent places near Newburn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bell’s Close	114
Blaydon Haughs	71
Path Head	65
Ryton	56
North Walbottle	40
Tyne	35
Newburn	33
Blaydon	25
Crookhill	24
Callerton	24

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

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 Newburn 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 Newburn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Blakelaw	85
2	Benwell & Scotswood	81
3	West Fenham	78
4	Denton & Westerhope	68
5	Lemington	67
6	Blaydon	58
7	Ryton, Crookhill and Stella	41
8	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
9	Whickham North	35
10	Chapel	28
11	Ponteland South with Heddon	4

Which road in Newburn has the highest level of crime?

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