Crime Statistics for Shiremoor, North Tyneside, North Tyneside, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shiremoor in August 2024. There were a total of 153 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 Shiremoor, 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	62
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Shoplifting	12
Other Theft	11
Public Order	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	5
Burglary	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	153

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Shiremoor. 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 Shiremoor

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Killingworth Village (1.96 miles)	410
Monkseaton (1.96 miles)	316
Billy Mill (1.75 miles)	290
Battle Hill (1.96 miles)	238
Killingworth Moor (1.96 miles)	207
Palmersville (1.39 miles)	132
Holywell (1.86 miles)	122
Shiremoor	115
Earsdon (0.88 miles)	112
Backworth (0.88 miles)	46

Where are the most violent places near Shiremoor?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Killingworth Village	186
Billy Mill	119
Monkseaton	88
Battle Hill	88
Shiremoor	62
Killingworth Moor	47
Holywell	40
Palmersville	38
Earsdon	36
Backworth	18

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

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 Shiremoor 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 Shiremoor compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shiremoor and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Shiremoor is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Holywell	59
2	Battle Hill	55
3	Valley	55
4	Benton	55
5	Northumberland	52
6	Collingwood	51
7	Killingworth	41
8	Camperdown	40
9	Monkseaton South	32
10	Monkseaton North	25
11	St Mary's	18

Which road in Shiremoor has the highest level of crime?

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