Crime Statistics for Offerton, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Offerton in October 2024. There were a total of 31 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Public Order.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Public Order	8
Violent Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	31

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 Offerton. 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 Offerton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Springwell (1.24 miles)	229
Barmston (1.96 miles)	213
Castletown (1.96 miles)	190
South Hylton (0.88 miles)	149
Pennywell (0.62 miles)	122
Farringdon (1.75 miles)	118
Columbia (1.86 miles)	106
Hasting Hill (0.88 miles)	73
North Hylton (1.24 miles)	60
Offerton	31

Where are the most violent places near Offerton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barmston	79
Springwell	70
Castletown	56
South Hylton	52
Columbia	45
Pennywell	40
Hasting Hill	28
Farringdon	24
North Hylton	18
Offerton	8

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

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 Offerton 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 Offerton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Offerton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Offerton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Pallion.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pallion	76
2	Sandhill	75
3	St Anne's	72
4	Barnes	71
5	Shiney Row	70
6	Copt Hill	67
7	Castle	63
8	Washington North	57
9	St Chad's	56
10	Washington Central	42
11	Washington East	41

Which road in Offerton has the highest level of crime?

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