Crime Statistics for Ash Bank, Staffordshire Moorlands, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

There were a total of 91 street level crime incidents in Ash Bank in February 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 Ash Bank, 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	44
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	3
Shoplifting	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	91

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ash Bank. 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 Ash Bank

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sandford Hill (1.76 miles)	298
Adderley Green (1.76 miles)	298
Ubberley (1.24 miles)	236
Bentilee (1.24 miles)	236
Townsend (1.39 miles)	230
Abbey Hulton (1.75 miles)	190
Ash Bank	91
Roughcote (1.39 miles)	75
Washerwall (0.62 miles)	60
Armshead (1.24 miles)	19

Where are the most violent places near Ash Bank?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ubberley	107
Bentilee	107
Townsend	99
Sandford Hill	96
Adderley Green	96
Abbey Hulton	91
Ash Bank	44
Roughcote	35
Washerwall	30
Armshead	9

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Ash Bank?

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 Ash Bank 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 Ash Bank compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ash Bank and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Ash Bank is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fenton East	88
2	Bentilee and Ubberley	86
3	Abbey Hulton and Townsend	79
4	Lightwood North and Normacot	73
5	Sandford Hill	73
6	Broadway and Longton East	68
7	Caverswall	67
8	Meir Hay	51
9	Weston Coyney	42
10	Cellarhead	27
11	Werrington	20

Which road in Ash Bank has the highest level of crime?

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