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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newburn in September 2024. There were a total of 95 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour38
Violent Crime26
Criminal Damage Arson11
Public Order9
Vehicle Crime7
Other Theft2
Other Crime2
All Crime95

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
North Walbottle (1.24 miles)193
Bell’s Close (1.39 miles)189
Tyne (0.26 miles)169
Blaydon (1.86 miles)148
Blaydon Haughs (1.75 miles)148
Crookhill (1.75 miles)144
Path Head (1.24 miles)130
Newburn95
Ryton (1.39 miles)71
Callerton (1.86 miles)58

3.56%
of Ryton, Crookhill and Stella residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Crookhill64
North Walbottle59
Blaydon53
Blaydon Haughs45
Bell’s Close40
Path Head40
Tyne33
Callerton29
Newburn26
Ryton17

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.

#WardScore
1Blakelaw85
2Benwell & Scotswood81
3West Fenham78
4Denton & Westerhope68
5Lemington67
6Blaydon58
7Ryton, Crookhill and Stella41
8Crawcrook and Greenside36
9Whickham North35
10Chapel28
11Ponteland South with Heddon4

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 Barmoor Lane.

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