Crime Statistics for Norton Green, Staffordshire Moorlands, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

Crime statistics for Norton Green, Staffordshire Moorlands

There were a total of 98 street level crime incidents in Norton Green 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 Norton Green, 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 Crime51
Anti Social Behaviour12
Criminal Damage Arson11
Public Order8
Other Crime4
Burglary4
Vehicle Crime3
Robbery2
Other Theft2
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime98

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 Norton Green. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Norton Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Norton-in-the-Moors (0.88 miles)210
Milton (1.24 miles)164
Baddeley Green (0.62 miles)142
Ball Green (0.62 miles)111
Cornhill (0.62 miles)111
Norton Green98
Brown Edge (0.62 miles)48
Stockton Brook (0.62 miles)30
Endon (1.39 miles)8
Hodgefield (1.24 miles)4

1.57%
of Brown Edge and Endon residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Norton Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Norton-in-the-Moors116
Milton85
Baddeley Green80
Ball Green64
Cornhill64
Norton Green51
Brown Edge27
Stockton Brook10
Endon4
Hodgefield2

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

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 Norton Green 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 Norton Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Norton Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Norton Green have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Burslem Central.

#WardScore
1Burslem Central93
2Little Chell and Stanfield80
3Burslem Park79
4Ford Green and Smallthorne77
5Great Chell and Packmoor65
6Bradeley and Chell Heath60
7Sneyd Green59
8Baddeley, Milton and Norton54
9Bagnall and Stanley25
10Werrington20
11Brown Edge and Endon9

Which road in Norton Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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