Crime Statistics for Mill Dam, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mill Dam in August 2024. There were a total of 324 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	99
Anti Social Behaviour	77
Violent Crime	70
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Public Order	15
Other Theft	15
Other Crime	10
Burglary	8
Theft From The Person	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	324

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 Mill Dam. 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 Mill Dam

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chirton (1.39 miles)	671
North Shields (1.24 miles)	610
Harton (1.75 miles)	571
South Shields (0.62 miles)	530
Tynemouth (1.86 miles)	471
Jarrow (0.88 miles)	400
Mill Dam	324
Biddick Hall (1.86 miles)	311
Tyne Dock (0.62 miles)	278
Horsley Hill (1.96 miles)	223

Where are the most violent places near Mill Dam?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chirton	207
Harton	164
North Shields	161
Tynemouth	131
South Shields	128
Jarrow	126
Biddick Hall	119
Tyne Dock	80
Mill Dam	70
Horsley Hill	62

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

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 Mill Dam 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 Mill Dam compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Mill Dam and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Mill Dam have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Horsley Hill.

#	Ward	Score
1	Simonside and Rekendyke	89
2	Chirton	88
3	Beacon and Bents	88
4	Biddick and All Saints	79
5	Bede	76
6	Whiteleas	72
7	West Park	72
8	Primrose	68
9	Westoe	51
10	Harton	50
11	Horsley Hill	48

Which road in Mill Dam has the highest level of crime?

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