Washington and Gateshead South
England · E14001567
9,229 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
9,229
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
2,865 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,078/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesfalling | 2,865 | 31.0% |
| Anti-social behaviourfalling | 1,504 | 16.3% |
| Shopliftingrising | 1,194 | 12.9% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 949 | 10.3% |
| Public orderfalling | 600 | 6.5% |
| Burglaryfalling | 479 | 5.2% |
| Other theftfalling | 475 | 5.1% |
| Other crimerising | 414 | 4.5% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 392 | 4.2% |
| Drugsfalling | 127 | 1.4% |
| Robberyrising | 106 | 1.1% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 75 | 0.8% |
| Theft from the personrising | 30 | 0.3% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 19 | 0.2% |
The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.
Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this· Hide
- Source
- Street-level crime
- Publisher
- data.police.uk (Home Office)
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- How it's mapped
- Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.
Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.
Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.