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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hedworth in September 2024. There were a total of 368 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	152
Anti Social Behaviour	64
Public Order	38
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Shoplifting	26
Vehicle Crime	13
Other Theft	12
Other Crime	12
Drugs	10
Burglary	10
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	368

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 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
Hebburn Colliery (1.75 miles)	462
Hebburn (1.39 miles)	452
Biddick Hall (1.24 miles)	311
Tyne Dock (1.75 miles)	304
Hedworth	293
Jarrow (1.39 miles)	236
Hebburn New Town (1.96 miles)	208
Monkton (0.62 miles)	178
Fellgate (0.88 miles)	103
Boldon Colliery (1.39 miles)	95

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
Hebburn	340
Hebburn Colliery	316
Hedworth	152
Biddick Hall	119
Tyne Dock	110
Hebburn New Town	99
Fellgate	82
Monkton	75
Jarrow	61
Boldon Colliery	45

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.