Crime Statistics for Bomarsund, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bomarsund in September 2024. There were a total of 94 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	29
Violent Crime	21
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Shoplifting	11
Public Order	10
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	94

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 Bomarsund. 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 Bomarsund

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ashington (1.86 miles)	373
Bedlington Station (1.24 miles)	287
North Seaton (1.75 miles)	234
Stakeford (0.88 miles)	95
Bomarsund	94
Cambois (1.96 miles)	94
Bedlington (1.96 miles)	87
Choppington (1.39 miles)	76
Sheepwash (1.39 miles)	64
North Seaton Colliery (1.39 miles)	48

Where are the most violent places near Bomarsund?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
North Seaton	110
Ashington	106
Bedlington Station	87
Cambois	38
Bedlington	31
Stakeford	30
Choppington	22
Bomarsund	21
Sheepwash	18
North Seaton Colliery	14

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

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 Bomarsund 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 Bomarsund compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bomarsund and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bomarsund is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hirst	97
2	Ashington Central	93
3	Kitty Brewster	92
4	College	89
5	Bedlington East	86
6	Bedlington Central	83
7	Sleekburn	75
8	Seaton with Newbiggin West	71
9	Stakeford	57
10	Choppington	47
11	Haydon	44

Which road in Bomarsund has the highest level of crime?

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