Crime Statistics for Cresswell, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cresswell in October 2024. There were a total of 18 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Shoplifting	4
Burglary	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Theft	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	18

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ashington (3.93 miles)	477
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea (3.78 miles)	179
North Seaton (4.35 miles)	163
North Seaton Colliery (4.97 miles)	57
South Broomhill (4.47 miles)	32
Red Row (4.47 miles)	32
Hadston (4.47 miles)	32
Cresswell	18
Stobswood (3.77 miles)	10
Linton (2.24 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Cresswell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ashington	177
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea	70
North Seaton	44
North Seaton Colliery	8
South Broomhill	6
Red Row	6
Hadston	6
Stobswood	3
Cresswell	1
Linton	0

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

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 Cresswell 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 Cresswell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cresswell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cresswell is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hirst	97
2	Ashington Central	93
3	College	89
4	Newbiggin Central and East	80
5	Seaton with Newbiggin West	71
6	Amble	64
7	Lynemouth	62
8	Stakeford	57
9	Bothal	50
10	Druridge Bay	45
11	Haydon	44

Which road in Cresswell has the highest level of crime?

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