Crime Statistics for Hedworth, South Tyneside, South Tyneside, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hedworth in October 2024. There were a total of 378 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 Hedworth, 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	156
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Other Theft	29
Shoplifting	22
Public Order	18
Other Crime	18
Burglary	11
Vehicle Crime	9
Drugs	9
Theft From The Person	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	2
All Crime	378

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 Hedworth. 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 Hedworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Biddick Hall (1.24 miles)	531
Tyne Dock (1.75 miles)	467
Jarrow (1.39 miles)	360
Hedworth	252
Fellgate (0.88 miles)	234
Hebburn New Town (1.96 miles)	226
Hebburn (1.39 miles)	188
Monkton (0.62 miles)	173
Hebburn Colliery (1.75 miles)	160
Boldon Colliery (1.39 miles)	98

Where are the most violent places near Hedworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fellgate	208
Biddick Hall	173
Hedworth	156
Tyne Dock	133
Hebburn Colliery	122
Jarrow	98
Hebburn New Town	92
Hebburn	83
Monkton	81
Boldon Colliery	30

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

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 Hedworth 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 Hedworth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hedworth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hedworth is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Biddick and All Saints	79
2	Bede	76
3	Whiteleas	72
4	Primrose	68
5	Monkton	66
6	Boldon Colliery	61
7	Hebburn North	61
8	Hebburn South	60
9	Washington North	57
10	Fellgate and Hedworth	55
11	Wardley and Leam Lane	50

Which road in Hedworth has the highest level of crime?

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