Northumbria Police Statistics
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The crime rate in Northumbria Police's force coverage area is 73 crimes per 1,000 people, for the 12-month period ending April 2026. The most commonly-reported crimes are violence and sexual offences, reported at a rate of roughly 29 reports per 1,000 daytime population.
Northumbria Police Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Northumbria Police's service area represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Northumbria Police's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Northumbria Police up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Northumbria Police's 56,690 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Northumbria Police • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Northumbria Police has a crime risk score of 519. This is based on analysis of 56,690 nearby areas within Northumbria Police, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Northumbria Police's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Northumbria Police, crime risk scores are typically around 519, while in National they are average 500.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 552 (500 for National), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 571 (National 500).
Trends in Crime Risk
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Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 22% in Northumbria Police's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Northumbria Police's crime risk score is down by 21%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, Northumbria Police's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 20%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
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The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Northumbria Police • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Shoplifting offences have a crime rate of 9.65 reports per 1,000 people in Northumbria Police, which is 1.35 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 16,416 crime reports logged by Northumbria Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Northumbria Police recorded 13,613 reports of Criminal Damage and Arson in Northumbria Police, resulting in a crime rate of 8.02 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.28.
The crime rate for Burglary is 1.14 times the national average at 3.58 reports per 1,000. This is from 6,094 crime reports reported to Northumbria Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
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Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.90 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 0.67 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 34% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.29 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 1.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 29% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.92 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 1.42 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 35% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
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Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.76 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 1.24 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 39% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.57 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 1.29 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 56% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.80 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 0.93 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 14% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Northumbria Police • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | |||
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 28,922 | 16.99 | 1.20 | 941,224 | 14.13 | 1.00 | |||
| Bicycle Theft | 848 | 0.51 | 0.70 | 48,449 | 0.73 | 1.00 | |||
| Burglary | 6,094 | 3.58 | 1.14 | 208,612 | 3.13 | 1.00 | |||
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 13,613 | 8.02 | 1.28 | 418,651 | 6.28 | 1.00 | |||
| Drugs | 3,596 | 2.12 | 0.69 | 205,214 | 3.09 | 1.00 | |||
| Other Crime | 5,393 | 3.16 | 1.71 | 124,230 | 1.85 | 1.00 | |||
| Other Theft | 8,394 | 4.95 | 0.87 | 378,146 | 5.69 | 1.00 | |||
| Possession of Weapons | 1,307 | 0.78 | 0.92 | 56,620 | 0.85 | 1.00 | |||
| Public Order | 11,306 | 6.64 | 1.14 | 386,297 | 5.80 | 1.00 | |||
| Robbery | 1,951 | 1.16 | 0.98 | 78,386 | 1.18 | 1.00 | |||
| Shoplifting | 16,416 | 9.65 | 1.35 | 475,025 | 7.13 | 1.00 | |||
| Theft From the Person | 914 | 0.53 | 0.34 | 103,505 | 1.55 | 1.00 | |||
| Vehicle Crime | 5,744 | 3.39 | 0.79 | 287,068 | 4.30 | 1.00 | |||
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 49,185 | 28.90 | 0.95 | 2,024,722 | 30.40 | 1.00 | |||
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | |||
| 2026 | 124,761 | 73.39 | 1.02 | 4,794,925 | 71.98 | 1.00 | |||
| 2025 | 141,396 | 83.52 | 1.13 | 4,892,734 | 74.03 | 1.00 | |||
| 2024 | 145,404 | 86.79 | 1.15 | 4,937,620 | 75.43 | 1.00 | |||
| 2023 | 146,468 | 88.47 | 1.12 | 5,115,763 | 79.01 | 1.00 | |||
| 2022 | 139,517 | 85.30 | 1.11 | 4,922,645 | 76.81 | 1.00 | |||
| 2021 | 130,521 | 80.24 | 1.17 | 4,369,811 | 68.57 | 1.00 | |||
| 2020 | 146,834 | 90.35 | 1.22 | 4,707,683 | 74.16 | 1.00 | |||
| 2019 | 166,043 | 102.30 | 1.34 | 4,824,370 | 76.25 | 1.00 | |||
| 2018 | 160,921 | 99.30 | 1.40 | 4,484,151 | 71.12 | 1.00 | |||
| 2017 | 128,718 | 79.42 | 1.24 | 4,011,470 | 63.94 | 1.00 | |||
| 2016 | 36,860 | 22.77 | 1.19 | 1,195,221 | 19.07 | 1.00 | |||
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Northumbria Police: Major Towns & Cities Compared
| Town / City | Crime Count | Crime Rate | CrimeRate Index | ||||||
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| Blaydon | 1,695 | 104.26 | 1.51 | ||||||
| South Shields | 7,695 | 99.68 | 1.39 | ||||||
| Ashington | 3,093 | 95.16 | 1.34 | ||||||
| Blyth | 4,086 | 93.87 | 1.31 | ||||||
| Jarrow | 2,808 | 92.49 | 1.30 | ||||||
| Alnwick | 858 | 88.74 | 1.37 | ||||||
| Wallsend | 4,425 | 87.67 | 1.23 | ||||||
| East Bedlington | 760 | 85.55 | 1.30 | ||||||
| Woolsington | 1,014 | 85.53 | 1.25 | ||||||
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 29,752 | 82.70 | 1.15 | ||||||
| Houghton-le-Spring | 1,029 | 78.90 | 1.17 | ||||||
| Sunderland | 23,684 | 78.75 | 1.09 | ||||||
| West Bedlington | 794 | 75.98 | 1.15 | ||||||
| Tynemouth | 5,570 | 74.97 | 1.05 | ||||||
| Gateshead | 15,048 | 73.67 | 1.02 | ||||||
| Choppington | 687 | 71.32 | 1.10 | ||||||
| Morpeth | 1,131 | 71.22 | 1.06 | ||||||
| Washington | 3,729 | 69.92 | 0.98 | ||||||
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 863 | 65.48 | 0.98 | ||||||
| Hetton | 1,227 | 64.15 | 0.95 | ||||||
| Ryton | 480 | 63.14 | 0.98 | ||||||
| Hebburn | 1,441 | 61.18 | 0.90 | ||||||
| Cramlington | 2,026 | 58.75 | 0.84 | ||||||
| Seaton Valley | 930 | 57.73 | 0.86 | ||||||
| Whitley Bay | 2,015 | 53.91 | 0.77 | ||||||
| Hexham | 691 | 51.97 | 0.79 | ||||||
| Prudhoe | 607 | 48.41 | 0.75 | ||||||
| Whickham | 739 | 47.42 | 0.70 | ||||||
| Longbenton | 1,603 | 42.04 | 0.60 | ||||||
| Ponteland | 380 | 28.85 | 0.49 | ||||||
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Northumbria Police Stations
| Police Station Name | Police Station Address | Description & Opening Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Alnwick Police Station | Prudhoe Street, Alnwick, NE66 1UJ | Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm |
| Bedlington Police Station | Schalksmuhle Road, Bedlington, NE22 7LA | Monday to Sunday, 9am to 5pm |
| Berwick Police Station | Church Street, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 1DZ | Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm |
| Gateshead Police Station | High West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1BN | Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm |
| Hexham Police Station | Shaftoe Leazes, Hexham, NE46 3DG | Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm |
| Middle Engine Lane Police Station | Middle Engine Lane, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, NE28 9NT | Monday to Sunday, 8am to 10pm |
| Newcastle City Centre Police Station | Forth Banks, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PH | Monday to Sunday, 8am to 10pm |
| South Shields Police Station | Millbank, Station Road, South Shields, NE33 1RR | Monday to Sunday, 9am to 5pm |
| Southwick Police Station | Church Bank, Southwick, Sunderland, SR5 2DU | Monday to Sunday, 8am to 10pm |