Crime Statistics for South Bents, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Bents in October 2024. There were a total of 109 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Bents, 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	33
Shoplifting	25
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Burglary	7
Vehicle Crime	4
Public Order	4
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Other Crime	1
All Crime	109

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 South Bents. 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 South Bents

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Monkwearmouth (1.39 miles)	1094
Ayres Quay (1.96 miles)	767
Bishopwearmouth (2.56 miles)	726
Millfield (2.24 miles)	611
Marley Pots (1.96 miles)	386
Southwick (2.24 miles)	315
Marsden (2.56 miles)	220
Fulwell (0.88 miles)	214
Carley Hill (1.39 miles)	192
South Bents	109

Where are the most violent places near South Bents?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Monkwearmouth	344
Ayres Quay	220
Bishopwearmouth	207
Millfield	166
Fulwell	120
Marley Pots	115
Southwick	86
Marsden	82
Carley Hill	65
South Bents	33

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

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 South Bents 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 South Bents compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Bents and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Bents is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hendon	92
2	Millfield	91
3	Redhill	84
4	Southwick	77
5	Barnes	71
6	Castle	63
7	Cleadon Park	62
8	St Peter's	62
9	Fulwell	39
10	Cleadon and East Boldon	36
11	Whitburn and Marsden	33

Which road in South Bents has the highest level of crime?

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