Crime Statistics for Morpeth, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Morpeth in September 2024. There were a total of 247 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	71
Violent Crime	44
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Other Theft	28
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Burglary	12
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	247

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 Morpeth. 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 Morpeth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Morpeth	233
Stobhillgate	128
High Church (0.62 miles)	112
Fulbeck (1.39 miles)	101
Stobhill (0.62 miles)	44
Pegswood (1.75 miles)	25
Loansdean (0.88 miles)	23
Bothal (1.96 miles)	16
Fair Moor (1.75 miles)	15
Hepscott (1.39 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Morpeth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fulbeck	45
Morpeth	44
Stobhillgate	25
High Church	23
Stobhill	9
Fair Moor	8
Loansdean	5
Pegswood	3
Bothal	2
Hepscott	0

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

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 Morpeth 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 Morpeth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Morpeth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Morpeth is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bedlington East	86
2	Bedlington Central	83
3	Stakeford	57
4	Bedlington West	57
5	Morpeth North	52
6	Bothal	50
7	Choppington	47
8	Morpeth Stobhill	47
9	Pegswood	46
10	Longhorsley	21
11	Morpeth Kirkhill	12

Which road in Morpeth has the highest level of crime?

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