Vehicle crime by area
Car crime in Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees (unitary authority) averaged 1,126 police-recorded vehicle offences a year in 2024/25 and 2025/26, against 93,752 privately kept licensed cars: a rate of 12.0 per 1,000 cars, 1.00× the England and Wales rate of 12.1. It ranks 101 of 316 local authorities (1 is highest).
Data to 2026-03-31 · Page updated 2026-09-28 · Publisher: 73 Auto
- Offences per 1,000 cars
- 12.0
- 1,126 offences a year, 2024/25 and 2025/26
- vs England & Wales
- 1.00×
- national rate 12.1
- Rank
- 101 of 316
- 21 of 62 english unitary authorities
How Stockton-on-Tees compares
Official data. Stockton-on-Tees's rate is 54% above the median local authority (7.8), which puts it in the middle half of the 316 areas.
Among the 62 english unitary authorities, it is 52% above the middle one (7.9) and ranks 21: in the middle half of its type.
| Comparison | Per 1,000 cars | Stockton-on-Tees vs it |
|---|---|---|
| Stockton-on-Tees | 12.0 | — |
| England and Wales (all offences ÷ all cars) | 12.1 | 1.00× |
| Median of 316 areas | 7.8 | 1.54× |
| All english unitary authorities pooled | 8.7 | 1.37× |
| Median of english unitary authorities | 7.9 | 1.52× |
Areas ranked either side
| Rank | Area | Type | Per 1,000 cars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | Dartford | shire district | 12.1 |
| 99 | Broxbourne | shire district | 12.1 |
| 100 | Ipswich | shire district | 12.0 |
| 101 | Stockton-on-Tees | unitary authority | 12.0 |
| 102 | Epsom and Ewell | shire district | 12.0 |
| 103 | Canterbury | shire district | 11.8 |
| 104 | Tameside | metropolitan district | 11.6 |
How the 73 Auto insurance estimate treats Stockton-on-Tees
73 Auto estimate, not a quote. Stockton-on-Tees's vehicle-crime index is 1.00 (its rate ÷ the national rate). That is inside the range the model uses unchanged. The collision part of the premium is multiplied by 1.00 (index^0.94) and the theft part by 1.00 (index^1).
Against the UK-average area (index 0.92), that makes the estimate for the reference driver (age 48, clean record, group 20 car) about 6% higher. The estimate uses your postcode district's index, listed below, not the authority figure directly. The area weighting was fitted to 7 published area premiums (leave-one-out error 13% against 19% with no area effect). See how 73 Auto estimates insurance.
Postcode districts mapped to Stockton-on-Tees
Districts where most privately kept cars are in Stockton-on-Tees. A district's index is the car-weighted average of the authorities it covers, so the 3 that cross into a neighbouring authority differ from Stockton-on-Tees's 1.00. The last column is the 73 Auto estimate relativity for the reference driver.
| District | Cars | Index | Estimate vs UK-average area |
|---|---|---|---|
| TS2 | 350 | 1.39 | 1.38× |
| TS15 | 8,945 | 0.87 | 0.95× |
| TS16 | 6,335 | 1.00 | 1.06× |
| TS17 | 22,278 | 1.00 | 1.07× |
| TS18 | 11,308 | 1.00 | 1.06× |
| TS19 | 15,683 | 1.00 | 1.06× |
| TS20 | 9,010 | 1.00 | 1.06× |
| TS22 | 7,039 | 0.98 | 1.05× |
| TS23 | 12,310 | 1.00 | 1.06× |
Limitations
Police-recorded crime only: unreported offences are missing, and recording practice varies between forces.
The rate is per car registered to a keeper in Stockton-on-Tees, not per car on its streets. Where many commuters or visitors park, offences against their cars count here while the cars count elsewhere, which pushes the rate up.
Offences a police force did not assign to an area are shared across its areas by car numbers. Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered.
Estimate insurance for a car kept in Stockton-on-Tees
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Where these figures come from
- Official data: Police recorded crime by Community Safety Partnership, year ending March 2025 and March 2026 — Home Office. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Official data: Licensed vehicles by small area (VEH0125), privately kept cars, 2026 Q2 — Department for Transport. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Official data: Postcode to LSOA to local authority lookup (August 2026) — Office for National Statistics (Open Geography Portal). Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right; contains Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right; contains National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right.
- 73 Auto analysis: area index and insurance relativities from the Insurance V2 model (insurance-v2.0) — 73 Auto. Our own calculation from the sources above.
Figures labelled as 73 Auto estimates are our own analysis of these sources, set out in the methodology and data sources. To report a factual error, see corrections.