Crime Rate of Durham City

Before coming to Durham, I already know that the crime rate of Durham is very low compare to other areas in England and Wales.

I remember when reading I came across a statistics which showed that Durham is one of the top2 safest cities - with the lowest crime rate - in England and Wales. But I forgot the source and couldn't find it on the Internet. The first time I talk with Andy, a psychiatrist part of whose job is to give training to local police officers, we talked about crimes and society. Not surprisingly, he reviewed that each year there are less than 5000 cases of crimes in total, which is 'unbelieveably' low, in my perspective. Plus, NO murder, very low robbery and pick-pockets, very few severe violance crimes. In one sentence, Durham City is generally safe.

Yesterday there delivered a flyer from the City of Durham, the 'Community Safety Partnership' flyer. It arouse my interest again to check out the exact figure of crime statistics. Figure from Office of National Statistics:

Offences	Durham District	N-E Region	England Country
Violence Against the Person	1060	41085	896287
Wounding or Other Act Endangering Life	29	756	13569
Other Wounding	567	20448	410991
Harassment Including Penalty Notices for Disorder	265	9307	214702
Common Assault	133	6871	191362
Robbery	17	1480	82404
Theft from the Person	73	2500	89072
Criminal Damage Including Arson	1466	61977	965995
Burglary in a Dwelling	254	10881	269400
Burglary Other than a Dwelling	455	14054	286875
Theft of a Motor Vehicle	170	7060	160109
Theft from a Motor Vehicle	297	15344	407141

The original page is Here. And I do recommend you to click the 'Map this data' tag right under the 'Key Figures for...' title. You could notice that Durham is among one of the lightest colours. (The lighter the colour, the less crimes reported.)

My own experience is: when walking in the silent street at 9pm, 10pm or sometimes as late as 2am, I am never afraid. It gives me so much sense of safety and peace. I love this expression in the Durham promotion site:

Enjoy the deep peace.