Crime Statistics for North Hylton, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Hylton in October 2024. There were a total of 58 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 North Hylton, 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	18
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Public Order	10
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Theft	4
Robbery	2
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	58

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 North Hylton. 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 North Hylton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Downhill (1.39 miles)	388
Pallion (1.86 miles)	355
Washington (1.86 miles)	319
Southwick (1.96 miles)	315
Springwell (1.75 miles)	229
Castletown (0.88 miles)	190
South Hylton (0.88 miles)	149
Pennywell (1.39 miles)	122
North Hylton	60
Offerton (1.24 miles)	31

Where are the most violent places near North Hylton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Downhill	118
Washington	104
Pallion	87
Southwick	86
Springwell	70
Castletown	56
South Hylton	52
Pennywell	40
North Hylton	18
Offerton	8

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

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 North Hylton 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 North Hylton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to North Hylton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.North Hylton is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Redhill	84
2	Southwick	77
3	Pallion	76
4	Sandhill	75
5	St Anne's	72
6	Barnes	71
7	Castle	63
8	Washington North	57
9	St Chad's	56
10	Washington Central	42
11	Washington East	41

Which road in North Hylton has the highest level of crime?

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