Crime Statistics for North Skelton, New Skelton, Redcar and Cleveland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Skelton in August 2024. There were a total of 67 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in North Skelton, 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	28
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Public Order	7
Other Theft	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	3
Other Crime	3
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	67

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 North Skelton. 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 North Skelton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Loftus (2.48 miles)	161
New Brotton (1.39 miles)	142
Brotton (0.88 miles)	91
Saltburn-by-the-Sea (1.96 miles)	88
North Skelton	67
New Skelton (0.62 miles)	63
Carlin How (1.96 miles)	52
Stranghow (1.86 miles)	23
Boosbeck (0.88 miles)	20
Margrove Park (2.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near North Skelton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Brotton	59
New Skelton	46
Loftus	33
Brotton	33
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	29
North Skelton	28
Carlin How	24
Stranghow	10
Boosbeck	7
Margrove Park	0

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

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 North Skelton 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 North Skelton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to North Skelton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.North Skelton is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Guisborough	72
2	Skelton East	55
3	Loftus	54
4	Lockwood	47
5	Skelton West	42
6	Brotton	40
7	Hutton	39
8	Saltburn	37
9	St Germain's	23
10	Belmont	19
11	Longbeck	13

Which road in North Skelton has the highest level of crime?

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