Crime Statistics for Barlaston, Stafford, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 13 street level crime incidents in Barlaston in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	4
Burglary	2
Violent Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	13

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 Barlaston. 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 Barlaston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hem Heath (1.96 miles)	72
Newstead (1.24 miles)	63
Barlaston	13
Rough Close (1.96 miles)	9
Leadendale (1.96 miles)	9
Tittensor (1.24 miles)	7
Moddershall (2.24 miles)	5
Meaford (1.96 miles)	5
Hartwell (1.39 miles)	2
Knenhall (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Barlaston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hem Heath	30
Newstead	24
Barlaston	2
Rough Close	2
Leadendale	2
Tittensor	2
Moddershall	2
Meaford	2
Hartwell	1
Knenhall	0

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

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 Barlaston 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 Barlaston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barlaston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Barlaston is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dresden and Florence	80
2	Meir South	74
3	Blurton West and Newstead	73
4	Broadway and Longton East	68
5	Hollybush and Longton West	64
6	Blurton East	60
7	Barlaston	32
8	Walton	26
9	Hanford and Trentham	23
10	Swynnerton & Oulton	21
11	St Michael's & Stonefield	19

Which road in Barlaston has the highest level of crime?

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