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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harton in August 2024. There were a total of 611 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	164
Anti Social Behaviour	122
Criminal Damage Arson	68
Public Order	65
Shoplifting	52
Other Theft	44
Burglary	28
Other Crime	20
Vehicle Crime	16
Possession Of Weapons	14
Drugs	12
Bicycle Theft	4
Robbery	2
All Crime	611

Map of street level crime incidents in August 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
Harton	571
South Shields (1.39 miles)	530
Jarrow (1.96 miles)	400
Mill Dam (1.75 miles)	324
Biddick Hall (1.39 miles)	311
Tyne Dock (1.39 miles)	278
Horsley Hill (0.88 miles)	223
Hedworth (2.56 miles)	204
Marsden (1.24 miles)	113
Boldon Colliery (2.63 miles)	95

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
Harton	164
South Shields	128
Jarrow	126
Biddick Hall	119
Tyne Dock	80
Mill Dam	70
Hedworth	69
Horsley Hill	62
Boldon Colliery	45
Marsden	35

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 this marker.