Crime Statistics for Chell Heath, Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

There were a total of 294 street level crime incidents in Chell Heath in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chell Heath, 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	98
Criminal Damage Arson	35
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Public Order	32
Other Theft	28
Vehicle Crime	21
Burglary	15
Shoplifting	13
Other Crime	10
Drugs	6
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	294

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 Chell Heath. 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 Chell Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bank Top (0.62 miles)	356
Tunstall (0.88 miles)	301
Chell Heath	294
Great Chell	294
Little Chell	294
Pitts Hill (0.62 miles)	245
Turnhurst (0.88 miles)	153
Fegg Hayes (0.62 miles)	134
Ball Green (1.24 miles)	111
Cornhill (1.24 miles)	111

Where are the most violent places near Chell Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bank Top	125
Chell Heath	98
Great Chell	98
Little Chell	98
Tunstall	86
Ball Green	64
Cornhill	64
Pitts Hill	63
Turnhurst	63
Fegg Hayes	54

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Chell Heath?

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 Chell Heath 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 Chell Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chell Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Chell Heath is ranked #8.

#	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	Ford Green and Smallthorne	77
7	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
8	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
9	Sneyd Green	59
10	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
11	Bradwell	38

Which road in Chell Heath has the highest level of crime?

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