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

There were a total of 102 street level crime incidents in Ash Bank 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 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime43
Anti Social Behaviour20
Criminal Damage Arson13
Vehicle Crime7
Burglary5
Other Theft5
Public Order5
Other Crime2
Robbery1
Drugs1
All Crime102

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Sandford Hill (1.76 miles)309
Adderley Green (1.76 miles)309
Ubberley (1.24 miles)231
Bentilee (1.24 miles)231
Townsend (1.39 miles)222
Abbey Hulton (1.75 miles)174
Ash Bank102
Roughcote (1.39 miles)93
Washerwall (0.62 miles)68
Armshead (1.24 miles)21

1.91%
of Caverswall residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Sandford Hill89
Adderley Green89
Ubberley84
Bentilee84
Townsend79
Abbey Hulton67
Ash Bank43
Roughcote38
Washerwall28
Armshead9

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.

#WardScore
1Fenton East88
2Bentilee and Ubberley86
3Abbey Hulton and Townsend79
4Lightwood North and Normacot73
5Sandford Hill73
6Broadway and Longton East68
7Caverswall67
8Meir Hay51
9Weston Coyney42
10Cellarhead27
11Werrington20

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.

Last updated: March 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0



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