Crime Statistics for Hetton Downs, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hetton Downs in October 2024. There were a total of 93 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hetton Downs, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime30
Criminal Damage Arson16
Anti Social Behaviour12
Burglary12
Public Order6
Vehicle Crime5
Other Crime4
Other Theft3
Drugs2
Possession Of Weapons2
Shoplifting1
All Crime93

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 Hetton Downs. 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 Hetton Downs

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Burnside (1.75 miles)207
Grasswell (1.75 miles)150
Rainton Bridge (0.62 miles)144
Hetton-Le-Hole (0.62 miles)142
Hetton Downs93
Stony Gate (1.86 miles)86
Great Eppleton (0.62 miles)68
Easington Lane (1.39 miles)66
High Dubmire (1.96 miles)40
Hetton-le-Hill (1.86 miles)23

2.38%
of Houghton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hetton Downs?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Burnside86
Hetton-Le-Hole55
Grasswell53
Rainton Bridge46
Hetton Downs30
Stony Gate30
Great Eppleton26
Easington Lane22
High Dubmire17
Hetton-le-Hill9

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

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 Hetton Downs 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 Hetton Downs compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hetton Downs and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hetton Downs is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Shotton and South Hetton84
2Easington81
3Murton81
4Sandhill75
5Hetton71
6Sherburn70
7Shiney Row70
8Houghton67
9Copt Hill67
10St Chad's56
11Lumley47

Which road in Hetton Downs has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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