Crime Statistics for Pitts Hill, Tunstall, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

There were a total of 267 street level crime incidents in Pitts Hill in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pitts Hill, 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	87
Burglary	29
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Shoplifting	26
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	21
Other Theft	15
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Crime	11
Drugs	5
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	267

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 Pitts Hill. 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 Pitts Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bank Top (0.88 miles)	364
Tunstall (0.62 miles)	322
Chell Heath (0.62 miles)	301
Great Chell (0.62 miles)	301
Little Chell (0.62 miles)	301
Pitts Hill	267
Turnhurst (0.62 miles)	193
Newfield (0.62 miles)	183
Sandyford (0.62 miles)	183
Fegg Hayes (0.88 miles)	175

Where are the most violent places near Pitts Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bank Top	112
Chell Heath	108
Great Chell	108
Little Chell	108
Tunstall	97
Pitts Hill	87
Turnhurst	74
Fegg Hayes	71
Newfield	48
Sandyford	48

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Pitts Hill?

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 Pitts Hill 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 Pitts Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pitts Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Pitts Hill is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burslem Central	93
2	Tunstall	88
3	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
4	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
5	Burslem Park	79
6	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
7	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
8	Wolstanton	51
9	Talke & Butt Lane	51
10	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
11	Bradwell	38

Which road in Pitts Hill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Pitts Hill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.