Crime Statistics for New Herrington, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Herrington in September 2024. There were a total of 86 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Herrington, 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	27
Vehicle Crime	13
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Burglary	7
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Other Crime	6
Other Theft	4
Public Order	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	86

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 New Herrington. 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 New Herrington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Grasswell (1.24 miles)	318
Farringdon (1.96 miles)	221
Fence Houses (1.39 miles)	185
Burnside (1.24 miles)	163
Newbottle (0.62 miles)	155
Stony Gate (1.39 miles)	144
Hasting Hill (1.75 miles)	109
Shiney Row (0.62 miles)	101
New Herrington	86
Bournmoor (1.39 miles)	64

Where are the most violent places near New Herrington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Farringdon	89
Grasswell	82
Fence Houses	74
Burnside	41
Hasting Hill	40
Newbottle	38
Shiney Row	35
New Herrington	27
Stony Gate	26
Bournmoor	22

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

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 New Herrington 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 New Herrington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Herrington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Herrington is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pallion	76
2	Sandhill	75
3	Hetton	71
4	Shiney Row	70
5	Houghton	67
6	Copt Hill	67
7	St Chad's	56
8	Chester-le-Street East	52
9	Lumley	47
10	Washington Central	42
11	Washington East	41

Which road in New Herrington has the highest level of crime?

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