Crime Statistics for Marsden, South Tyneside, South Tyneside, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Marsden in October 2024. There were a total of 224 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 Marsden, 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	82
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Drugs	14
Shoplifting	12
Public Order	10
Other Theft	10
Robbery	4
Burglary	2
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	224

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 Marsden. 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 Marsden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Biddick Hall (2.55 miles)	531
South Shields (2.24 miles)	479
Tyne Dock (2.55 miles)	467
Jarrow (3.16 miles)	360
Mill Dam (2.77 miles)	316
Harton (1.24 miles)	253
Horsley Hill (0.88 miles)	221
Marsden	220
Fulwell (3.11 miles)	214
South Bents (2.56 miles)	109

Where are the most violent places near Marsden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Biddick Hall	173
South Shields	164
Tyne Dock	133
Harton	125
Fulwell	120
Jarrow	98
Marsden	82
Mill Dam	81
Horsley Hill	79
South Bents	33

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

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 Marsden 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 Marsden compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Simonside and Rekendyke	89
2	Biddick and All Saints	79
3	Whiteleas	72
4	West Park	72
5	Cleadon Park	62
6	Westoe	51
7	Harton	50
8	Horsley Hill	48
9	Fulwell	39
10	Cleadon and East Boldon	36
11	Whitburn and Marsden	33

Which road in Marsden has the highest level of crime?

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