Crime Statistics for South Hylton, Sunderland, Sunderland, 2025

Is South Hylton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 111 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 South 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	36
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Shoplifting	17
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Other Theft	6
Public Order	5
Drugs	4
Burglary	4
Other Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	111

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 South 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 South Hylton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pennywell (0.62 miles)	248
Pallion (1.39 miles)	245
Southwick (1.75 miles)	241
Springwell (0.88 miles)	207
Hasting Hill (1.24 miles)	139
Downhill (1.86 miles)	123
South Hylton	111
Castletown (1.24 miles)	109
Offerton (0.88 miles)	93
North Hylton (0.88 miles)	27

Where are the most violent places near South Hylton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pennywell	102
Pallion	95
Southwick	95
Springwell	77
Downhill	49
Hasting Hill	46
Castletown	44
South Hylton	36
Offerton	33
North Hylton	10

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in South 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 South 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 South Hylton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Hylton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South 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	Silksworth	60
9	Washington North	57
10	St Chad's	56
11	Washington East	41

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

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