Crime Statistics for Abbey Green, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Abbey Green, Staffordshire Moorlands

There were a total of 85 street level crime incidents in Abbey Green in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Abbey 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 Crime30
Shoplifting27
Other Theft7
Criminal Damage Arson6
Anti Social Behaviour6
Burglary3
Drugs3
Robbery1
Public Order1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime85

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Abbey 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 Abbey Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ball Haye Green (0.62 miles)138
Haregate (1.24 miles)130
Abbey Green85
New Mills (1.39 miles)65
Lowe Hill (1.75 miles)39
Barnfields (1.24 miles)19
Poolend (0.88 miles)0
Harper’s Gate (1.24 miles)0
Dunwood (1.75 miles)0
Horton (1.86 miles)0

2.95%
of Leek West residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Abbey Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ball Haye Green57
Haregate51
New Mills34
Abbey Green30
Lowe Hill12
Barnfields4
Poolend0
Harper’s Gate0
Dunwood0
Horton0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Abbey 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 Abbey 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 Abbey Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abbey Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Abbey Green is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Dane59
2Biddulph East56
3Leek North55
4Leek East46
5Leek South37
6Leek West25
7Biddulph South20
8Cheddleton10
9Brown Edge and Endon9
10Biddulph Moor7
11Biddulph North5

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

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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