Crime Statistics for Harton, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harton in October 2024. There were a total of 370 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 Harton, 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	125
Anti Social Behaviour	57
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Shoplifting	39
Public Order	37
Other Theft	19
Drugs	15
Vehicle Crime	14
Burglary	8
Other Crime	4
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	370

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 Harton. 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 Harton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Biddick Hall (1.39 miles)	531
South Shields (1.39 miles)	479
Tyne Dock (1.39 miles)	467
Jarrow (1.96 miles)	360
Mill Dam (1.75 miles)	316
Harton	253
Hedworth (2.56 miles)	252
Horsley Hill (0.88 miles)	221
Marsden (1.24 miles)	220
Boldon Colliery (2.63 miles)	98

Where are the most violent places near Harton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Biddick Hall	173
South Shields	164
Hedworth	156
Tyne Dock	133
Harton	125
Jarrow	98
Marsden	82
Mill Dam	81
Horsley Hill	79
Boldon Colliery	30

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

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 Harton 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 Harton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Simonside and Rekendyke	89
2	Biddick and All Saints	79
3	Bede	76
4	Whiteleas	72
5	West Park	72
6	Cleadon Park	62
7	Westoe	51
8	Harton	50
9	Horsley Hill	48
10	Cleadon and East Boldon	36
11	Whitburn and Marsden	33

Which road in Harton has the highest level of crime?

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