Crime Rate in Bank Top & Lascelles, ward

Bank Top & Lascelles has the 5th highest crime rate of 20 wards in Darlington district and the 742nd highest crime rate ward of 7,548 wards in England and Wales. Across the region (North East), it has the 72nd highest crime rate of 343 wards.

The overall crime rate in Bank Top & Lascelles in the last 12 months was 141.3 per 1,000 residents and was 15.5% higher than the Darlington district average (122.3 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, Bank Top & Lascelles’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 335 offences recorded. The least common crime was Robbery with 3 cases , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 35.3% YoY). The sharpest decline was Theft from the person ( -57.1% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 408 (≈ 55.4 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -15.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -39.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the Bank Top & Lascelles ward, the highest concentration of overall crime occurs near Supermarket, with 62 recorded incidents. Violent and public-order offences happen most frequently around Gilling Crescent (16 offences). Both locations are situated within roughly 0.3 miles of each other.