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

Is Stoke-on-Trent rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 544 incidents. 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 Stoke-on-Trent, 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 Crime186
Anti Social Behaviour80
Shoplifting79
Public Order50
Criminal Damage Arson35
Other Theft35
Burglary22
Vehicle Crime17
Drugs12
Robbery8
Other Crime7
Theft From The Person5
Possession Of Weapons5
Bicycle Theft3
All Crime544

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Stoke-on-Trent. 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 Stoke-on-Trent

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hanley (0.62 miles)1110
Stoke-on-Trent544
Cobridge (0.62 miles)467
May Bank (1.24 miles)331
Newcastle-under-Lyme (1.39 miles)328
Burslem (1.24 miles)312
Shelton (0.62 miles)305
Basford (1.39 miles)301
Etruria (0.62 miles)269
Stoke-upon-Trent (1.24 miles)268

5.37%
of May Bank residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Stoke-on-Trent?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hanley395
Shelton263
Cobridge232
Stoke-on-Trent186
Basford125
Newcastle-under-Lyme124
Etruria119
Burslem117
May Bank111
Stoke-upon-Trent97

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Stoke-on-Trent?

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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stoke-on-Trent and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Stoke-on-Trent have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Joiner's Square.

#WardScore
1Joiner's Square91
2Moorcroft90
3Etruria and Hanley88
4Hanley Park and Shelton76
5Cross Heath72
6Boothen and Oak Hill71
7Town69
8Birches Head and Central Forest Park67
9Penkhull and Stoke62
10Hartshill and Basford56
11May Bank46

Which road in Stoke-on-Trent has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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