Crime Statistics for Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Spital Tongues in September 2024. There were a total of 727 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 Spital Tongues, 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	202
Anti Social Behaviour	166
Vehicle Crime	67
Criminal Damage Arson	65
Public Order	52
Other Theft	49
Shoplifting	44
Drugs	24
Burglary	18
Other Crime	17
Theft From The Person	11
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	4
All Crime	727

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 Spital Tongues. 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 Spital Tongues

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newcastle upon Tyne (1.39 miles)	1140
Blakelaw (1.39 miles)	904
Kenton Bar (1.75 miles)	835
Fenham (0.62 miles)	747
Spital Tongues	727
Jesmond (1.39 miles)	459
Benwell (1.39 miles)	386
Kenton (1.39 miles)	338
Gosforth (1.86 miles)	264
South Gosforth (1.39 miles)	168

Where are the most violent places near Spital Tongues?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blakelaw	392
Newcastle upon Tyne	372
Kenton Bar	210
Fenham	204
Spital Tongues	202
Jesmond	149
Benwell	91
Kenton	90
Gosforth	84
South Gosforth	45

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

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 Spital Tongues 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 Spital Tongues compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Spital Tongues and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Spital Tongues is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Elswick	88
2	Blakelaw	85
3	Monument	76
4	Arthur's Hill	75
5	Wingrove	71
6	Ouseburn	67
7	Dunston and Teams	66
8	Kenton	62
9	South Jesmond	49
10	North Jesmond	45
11	Gosforth	42

Which road in Spital Tongues has the highest level of crime?

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