Crime Statistics for Horsley Hill, South Tyneside, South Tyneside, 2025

Is Horsley Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 210 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 Horsley Hill, 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	71
Anti Social Behaviour	45
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Shoplifting	24
Public Order	13
Other Theft	9
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Crime	6
Burglary	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	210

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Horsley Hill. 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 Horsley Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Shields (1.39 miles)	840
Chirton (3.1 miles)	726
North Shields (2.63 miles)	614
Harton (0.88 miles)	516
Tyne Dock (1.86 miles)	484
Jarrow (2.48 miles)	418
Biddick Hall (2.24 miles)	258
Mill Dam (1.96 miles)	233
Horsley Hill	210
Marsden (0.88 miles)	107

Where are the most violent places near Horsley Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chirton	435
Tyne Dock	336
South Shields	237
North Shields	169
Harton	150
Jarrow	121
Biddick Hall	85
Mill Dam	74
Horsley Hill	71
Marsden	36

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

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 Horsley Hill 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 Horsley Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Simonside and Rekendyke	89
2	Beacon and Bents	88
3	Biddick and All Saints	79
4	Whiteleas	72
5	West Park	72
6	Cleadon Park	62
7	Westoe	51
8	Harton	50
9	Horsley Hill	48
10	Cleadon and East Boldon	36
11	Whitburn and Marsden	33

Which road in Horsley Hill has the highest level of crime?

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