Crime Statistics for New Silksworth, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2025

Is New Silksworth rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 323 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 New Silksworth, 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	104
Anti Social Behaviour	54
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Shoplifting	26
Public Order	26
Other Theft	23
Burglary	22
Other Crime	14
Vehicle Crime	4
Robbery	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	323

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes New Silksworth. 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 Silksworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Silksworth	309
Pennywell (1.75 miles)	248
Springwell (1.39 miles)	207
Ryhope Colliery (1.86 miles)	180
Doxford Park (0.62 miles)	164
Tunstall (0.62 miles)	157
Farringdon (0.62 miles)	156
Hasting Hill (1.39 miles)	139
Stony Gate (1.75 miles)	59
Burdon (1.39 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near New Silksworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Silksworth	104
Pennywell	102
Ryhope Colliery	91
Springwell	77
Farringdon	64
Doxford Park	46
Hasting Hill	46
Tunstall	42
Stony Gate	19
Burdon	8

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

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 Silksworth 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 Silksworth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Silksworth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Silksworth is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pallion	76
2	Sandhill	75
3	St Michael's	75
4	St Anne's	72
5	Barnes	71
6	Houghton	67
7	Copt Hill	67
8	Ryhope	66
9	Silksworth	60
10	St Chad's	56
11	Doxford	32

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

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