Crime Statistics for Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

There were a total of 333 street level crime incidents in Hartshill in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hartshill, 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	121
Public Order	39
Shoplifting	39
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Other Theft	23
Drugs	12
Vehicle Crime	9
Bicycle Theft	6
Burglary	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	3
Other Crime	3
Robbery	2
All Crime	333

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 Hartshill. 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 Hartshill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shelton (0.88 miles)	426
Stoke-upon-Trent (0.62 miles)	348
Hartshill	333
Basford (0.88 miles)	323
Newcastle-under-Lyme (0.88 miles)	323
Etruria (1.24 miles)	280
Boothen (0.88 miles)	254
Oak Hill (0.62 miles)	156
Penkhull (0.62 miles)	156
Springfields (0.62 miles)	156

Where are the most violent places near Hartshill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shelton	158
Stoke-upon-Trent	125
Hartshill	121
Basford	121
Newcastle-under-Lyme	121
Etruria	106
Boothen	89
Oak Hill	64
Penkhull	64
Springfields	64

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

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 Hartshill 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 Hartshill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hanley Park and Shelton	76
2	Cross Heath	72
3	Boothen and Oak Hill	71
4	Town	69
5	Springfields and Trent Vale	66
6	Penkhull and Stoke	62
7	Hartshill and Basford	56
8	Clayton	47
9	May Bank	46
10	Thistleberry	40
11	Westlands	38

Which road in Hartshill has the highest level of crime?

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