Crime Statistics for Newsham, North Blyth, Northumberland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newsham in August 2024. There were a total of 257 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 Newsham, 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	76
Anti Social Behaviour	76
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Shoplifting	21
Public Order	12
Other Crime	9
Other Theft	7
Drugs	6
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	6
Bicycle Theft	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	257

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 Newsham. 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 Newsham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blyth (0.62 miles)	382
Bedlington Station (2.24 miles)	287
Newsham	235
Isabella Pit	235
South Newsham (1.24 miles)	103
New Hartley (2.48 miles)	99
New Delaval (0.88 miles)	97
Cambois (1.86 miles)	94
Bebside (1.39 miles)	57
South Beach (1.39 miles)	49

Where are the most violent places near Newsham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blyth	133
Bedlington Station	87
Newsham	76
Isabella Pit	70
Cambois	38
South Newsham	32
New Hartley	28
New Delaval	25
Bebside	19
South Beach	12

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

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 Newsham 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 Newsham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Croft	99
2	Cowpen	95
3	Kitty Brewster	92
4	Newsham	91
5	Isabella	90
6	Wensleydale	86
7	Seghill with Seaton Delaval	79
8	Sleekburn	75
9	South Blyth	51
10	Plessey	50
11	Hartley	38

Which road in Newsham has the highest level of crime?

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