Crime Statistics for Abbey Hulton, Bucknall, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

There were a total of 174 street level crime incidents in Abbey Hulton in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Abbey Hulton, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	67
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Shoplifting	15
Public Order	12
Other Crime	10
Other Theft	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Drugs	4
Burglary	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	174

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Abbey Hulton. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Abbey Hulton

We've taken the ten nearest places to Abbey Hulton and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Abbey Hulton has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Birches Head (1.24 miles)	638
Northwood (1.24 miles)	638
Bucknall (0.88 miles)	303
Ubberley (1.24 miles)	236
Bentilee (1.24 miles)	236
Townsend (0.62 miles)	230
Abbey Hulton	174
Baddeley Edge (1.24 miles)	82
Kerry Hill (0.88 miles)	53
Armshead (1.24 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Abbey Hulton?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Abbey Hulton and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Birches Head	208
Northwood	208
Bucknall	116
Ubberley	107
Bentilee	107
Townsend	99
Abbey Hulton	67
Baddeley Edge	35
Kerry Hill	30
Armshead	9

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Abbey Hulton?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Abbey Hulton to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Abbey Hulton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abbey Hulton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Abbey Hulton is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Joiner's Square	91
2	Etruria and Hanley	88
3	Bentilee and Ubberley	86
4	Abbey Hulton and Townsend	79
5	Eaton Park	75
6	Birches Head and Central Forest Park	67
7	Sneyd Green	59
8	Baddeley, Milton and Norton	54
9	Cellarhead	27
10	Bagnall and Stanley	25
11	Werrington	20

Which road in Abbey Hulton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Abbey Hulton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Benedict Place.