Total Crime Rate

127.7 per 1,000 8/10 · High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 05.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 127.7 8/10
  • Shoplifting 69.3 9/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 18.3 9/10
  • Public order 11.0 8/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 11.0 3/10
  • Drugs 7.3 7/10
  • Other crime 3.7 5/10
  • Other theft 3.7 3/10
  • Possession of weapons 3.7 6/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 0.0 1/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Burglary 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Theft from the person 0.0 1/10
  • Vehicle crime 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Newsham Road area has the 27th lowest crime rate of 54 local areas in Cowpen , and the 249th highest crime rate of 1,088 local areas in Northumberland .

Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.

The overall crime rate in the area around Newsham Road (NE24 5RB) in the last 12 months was 127.7 per 1,000 residents and was 18.2% lower than the Cowpen average (156.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 19 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -78.6% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 7 (≈ 25.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -63.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -69.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Newsham Road (NE24 5RB), the main crime hotspot is near Shelley Crescent. Police recorded 98 crimes here, including 68 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.

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Crime Over Time in Newsham Road area

MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Trevelyan Avenue Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Newsham Road Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Newsham Road Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Newsham Road
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Burglary Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Shelley Crescent Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Southend Avenue Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Southend Avenue Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Byron Avenue Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Chester Grove Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Southend Avenue Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Twentysixth Avenue Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Twentythird Avenue
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Embleton Drive
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Southend Avenue Investigation complete; no suspect identified

Data Sources

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