Crime Statistics for Burnside, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Burnside in September 2024. There were a total of 163 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 Burnside, 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	41
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Burglary	12
Other Theft	12
Public Order	12
Vehicle Crime	10
Shoplifting	9
Other Crime	8
Drugs	7
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	163

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 Burnside. 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 Burnside

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Grasswell	318
Fence Houses (0.62 miles)	185
Burnside	163
Newbottle (0.62 miles)	155
Stony Gate (1.39 miles)	144
Colliery Row (0.88 miles)	107
New Herrington (1.24 miles)	86
Bournmoor (1.39 miles)	64
High Dubmire (0.88 miles)	55
Chilton Moor (0.88 miles)	55

Where are the most violent places near Burnside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Grasswell	82
Fence Houses	74
Burnside	41
Newbottle	38
Colliery Row	30
New Herrington	27
Stony Gate	26
Bournmoor	22
High Dubmire	16
Chilton Moor	16

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

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 Burnside 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 Burnside compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chester-le-Street West Central	76
2	Sandhill	75
3	Hetton	71
4	Sherburn	70
5	Shiney Row	70
6	Houghton	67
7	Copt Hill	67
8	St Chad's	56
9	Chester-le-Street East	52
10	Lumley	47
11	Washington East	41

Which road in Burnside has the highest level of crime?

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