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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harton in September 2024. There were a total of 364 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime117
Anti Social Behaviour56
Shoplifting54
Criminal Damage Arson46
Other Theft24
Public Order19
Vehicle Crime15
Other Crime12
Drugs9
Possession Of Weapons6
Burglary4
Robbery1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime364

Map of street level crime incidents in September 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
South Shields (1.39 miles)563
Mill Dam (1.75 miles)544
Biddick Hall (1.39 miles)311
Harton305
Tyne Dock (1.39 miles)304
Hedworth (2.56 miles)293
Jarrow (1.96 miles)236
Horsley Hill (0.88 miles)234
Marsden (1.24 miles)123
Boldon Colliery (2.63 miles)95

3.02%
of Harton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Mill Dam316
South Shields152
Hedworth152
Biddick Hall119
Harton117
Tyne Dock110
Horsley Hill103
Jarrow61
Boldon Colliery45
Marsden29

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.

#WardScore
1Simonside and Rekendyke89
2Biddick and All Saints79
3Bede76
4Whiteleas72
5West Park72
6Cleadon Park62
7Westoe51
8Harton50
9Horsley Hill48
10Cleadon and East Boldon36
11Whitburn and Marsden33

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.

Last updated: September 2024
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