Crime Statistics for Grasswell, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Grasswell in August 2024. There were a total of 340 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	105
Violent Crime	89
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Other Theft	28
Burglary	24
Public Order	22
Shoplifting	16
Vehicle Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
Other Crime	4
Drugs	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	340

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 Grasswell. 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 Grasswell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Grasswell	322
Newbottle (0.62 miles)	317
New Herrington (1.24 miles)	256
Burnside	175
Fence Houses (0.62 miles)	110
Stony Gate (1.39 miles)	69
High Dubmire (0.88 miles)	66
Chilton Moor (0.88 miles)	66
Colliery Row (0.88 miles)	66
Bournmoor (1.39 miles)	54

Where are the most violent places near Grasswell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Herrington	156
Grasswell	89
Newbottle	79
Burnside	48
Fence Houses	30
Stony Gate	22
High Dubmire	17
Chilton Moor	17
Colliery Row	17
Bournmoor	10

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

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 Grasswell 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 Grasswell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Grasswell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Grasswell 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 Grasswell has the highest level of crime?

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