Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0Tynemouth records more crime per resident than 89% of UK towns
Violence recorded locally dropped 10% in a year. Police counts work out at 40.4 violent and sexual offences and 20.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually. Its Safety Grade is D, on crimes police recorded inside Tynemouth’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #23 of 34 in Tyne and Wear. Shoplifting runs at 18.3 per 1,000 residents here, against 10.3 in a typical town its size: police recorded 1,107 in the 12 months to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Tynemouth
One ward carries much of the rate
Riverside ward recorded 2,512 of Tynemouth’s 7,145 violent and sexual offences in three years: 107.8 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Tynemouth the figure is 29.1. Where in Tynemouth ↓
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 10% less violent crime per resident in Tynemouth than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 10% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 121 UK towns and cities of 42,000 to 82,000 people, Tynemouth has the 73rd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Banbury, Kettering and Bletchley, higher than Guildford, Worksop and Runcorn. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 13% of Tynemouth’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 36% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: D for Tynemouth
A firm grade. Built on 10,796 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Tynemouth against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Lowest recorded crime in Valley, Cullercoats and Preston; highest in Riverside
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley | 2,394 | 16.7 | 10.2 | |
| Cullercoats | 9,355 | 18.6 | 10.3 | |
| Preston | 8,010 | 17.4 | 12.3 | |
| Tynemouth | 10,249 | 26.2 | 15.4 | |
| Collingwood | 11,131 | 35.6 | 16.1 | |
| Chirton | 11,706 | 44.3 | 22.5 | |
| Riverside | 7,766 | 107.8 | 51.1 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 1,206 | 69% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 882 | 32% violent |
| Petrol stations | 805 | 77% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 804 | 58% shoplifting & theft |
| College and university buildings | 89 | 54% anti-social behaviour |
| Hospitals | 54 | 50% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 31 | 35% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Riverside records 3.7× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Tynemouth. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Tynemouth. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Tynemouth’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
1 in 8 Tynemouth residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
22% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 36% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Tynemouth’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Tynemouth runs highest on shoplifting (18.3 per 1,000 against 10.3), other crime (3.1 per 1,000 against 2.1) and burglary (4.4 per 1,000 against 3.4). Other theft and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,946 | 32.1 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 1,305 | 21.5 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 1,107 | 18.3 | 10.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 584 | 9.6 | 7.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 443 | 7.3 | 7.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 315 | 5.2 | 6.6 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 273 | 4.5 | 4.9 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 267 | 4.4 | 3.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 185 | 3.1 | 2.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 126 | 2.1 | 3.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 101 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 52 | 0.9 | 1.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 34 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 25 | 0.4 | 0.9 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Crime in Tynemouth per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 19 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 24 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Tynemouth has moved
Northumbria Police published two months short or not at all (Jan 2026 and Feb 2026), so the line breaks there and those months are left out of the rates. “Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -10% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +10% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +19% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +2% (towns its size -2%).
Police in Tynemouth identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 76% of Tynemouth’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 37% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (0% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 4% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 3,910 crimes.
Tynemouth places 73rd of 121 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 53 | Washington Tyne and Wear | 51,318 | 32.7 | 20.4 | 18 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 70 | Guildford Surrey | 77,870 | 44.3 | 15.2 | 23.7 | D |
| 71 | Worksop Nottinghamshire | 43,435 | 40.2 | 20.9 | 32.9 | D |
| 72 | Runcorn Cheshire | 61,641 | 48.6 | 12.6 | 10.2 | D |
| 73 | Tynemouth Tyne and Wear | 60,611 | 40.4 | 20.9 | 23.7 | D |
| 74 | Rochester Kent | 67,279 | 44.7 | 16.8 | 17.3 | D |
| 75 | Lancaster Lancashire | 52,646 | 39.3 | 22.6 | 17.2 | D |
| 76 | Yeovil Somerset | 50,170 | 49.2 | 12.8 | 24.4 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 88 | Wallsend Tyne and Wear | 45,351 | 47.6 | 21.7 | 23 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 94 | South Shields Tyne and Wear | 73,326 | 49.1 | 22.9 | 26.4 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 121 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 76.8 | 18.9 | 29.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Tynemouth, and others in Tyne and Wear.
Three people died in collisions on Tynemouth’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 313 collisions with injuries inside Tynemouth in five years, in which three people died (1 was a pedestrian). 66 people were killed or seriously injured: 23 on foot and 16 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Tynemouth’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tynemouth’s own rate (1.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Tynemouth had 21.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 35% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Tynemouth’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Tynemouth
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tynemouth | 60,611 | 40.4 | 20.9 | D |
| Whitley Bay | 36,876 | 21.7 | 11 | B− |
| Shiremoor | 6,965 | 27.8 | 13.7 | C |
| Wallsend | 45,351 | 47.6 | 21.7 | D |
| South Shields | 73,326 | 49.1 | 22.9 | D |
| Backworth | 4,483 | 34.6 | 17.2 | C− |
| Jarrow | 29,467 | 46.8 | 21.7 | D |
| Hebburn | 21,341 | 37.9 | 19.2 | D |
Tynemouth records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Whitley Bay, 2 miles away, records 21.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Tynemouth’s 40.4.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 54 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Tynemouth’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- Some months are short. Northumbria Police published January 2026 and February 2026 only in part or not at all. Those months are left out of the rates, which average the months that were published in full; the raw counts include what was published.
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Tynemouth sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Tynemouth
Is Tynemouth safe?
Police recorded 40.4 violent and sexual offences and 20.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Tynemouth’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 11% of UK towns. Among 121 UK towns of 42,000 to 82,000 people, Tynemouth is 73rd from the least crime. 13% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Tynemouth?
By council ward, Valley, Cullercoats and Preston record the least violent and household crime per resident: 16.7, 18.6 and 17.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 107.8 in Riverside.
Is crime going up in Tynemouth?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 10%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 10%, shoplifting and theft rose 19% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Tynemouth?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,946 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (1,107) and criminal damage & arson (584), with 1,305 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Tynemouth compare with South Shields?
South Shields records 49.1 violent and sexual offences and 22.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Tynemouth’s 40.4 and 20.9, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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