Crime Statistics for Bank Top, Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bank Top in September 2024. There were a total of 70 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Violent Crime	14
Public Order	10
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	70

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 Bank Top. 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 Bank Top

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

Location	Crime Incidents
North Walbottle (1.96 miles)	193
Tyne (1.86 miles)	169
Crookhill (1.96 miles)	144
Newburn (1.96 miles)	95
Bar Moor (1.24 miles)	91
Ryton (1.39 miles)	71
Bank Top	67
Crawcrook (1.96 miles)	30
Clara Vale (1.39 miles)	26
Heddon-on-the-Wall (0.62 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Bank Top?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crookhill	64
North Walbottle	59
Tyne	33
Newburn	26
Bar Moor	26
Ryton	17
Bank Top	14
Crawcrook	9
Clara Vale	9
Heddon-on-the-Wall	5

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

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 Bank Top 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 Bank Top compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	West Fenham	78
2	Denton & Westerhope	68
3	Lemington	67
4	Prudhoe South	41
5	Ryton, Crookhill and Stella	41
6	Crawcrook and Greenside	36
7	Chapel	28
8	Prudhoe North	27
9	Bywell	26
10	Ponteland West	6
11	Ponteland South with Heddon	4

Which road in Bank Top has the highest level of crime?

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