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Crime · Castle Square
Reported crime in the Backworth built-up area
649 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 80 per 1,000 residents.
The figures on this page are for the Backworth built-up area, which includes Castle Square. There are no separate figures for Castle Square. What each figure covers
Total incidents
649
Rate / 1,000
80
Categories
13
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 183 | 28% |
| Shoplifting | 150 | 23% |
| Anti social behaviour | 104 | 16% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 51 | 8% |
| Public order | 42 | 6% |
| Burglary | 31 | 5% |
| Other theft | 31 | 5% |
| Vehicle crime | 27 | 4% |
| Other crime | 11 | 2% |
| Robbery | 8 | 1% |
| Drugs | 8 | 1% |
| Possession of weapons | 2 | 0% |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 27 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 23 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 183 |
| Shoplifting | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 16 | 19 | 36 | 11 | 22 | 150 |
| Anti social behaviour | 8 | 20 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 104 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 51 |
| Public order | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 42 |
| Burglary | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 31 | |||
| Other theft | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 31 | |||
| Vehicle crime | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 27 | |||
| Other crime | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | ||||||
| Robbery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| Drugs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||||
| Possession of weapons | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 59 | 69 | 60 | 51 | 51 | 55 | 19 | 45 | 56 | 76 | 45 | 63 | 649 |
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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Castle Square, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 8,109.