Crime Statistics for Colton Hills, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 37 street level crime incidents in Colton Hills in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Colton Hills, 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	20
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Theft	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Burglary	2
Public Order	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	37

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 Colton Hills. 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 Colton Hills

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blakenhall (1.39 miles)	385
Parkfield (1.39 miles)	220
Ettingshall Park (1.24 miles)	168
Lanesfield (1.24 miles)	168
Cinder Hill (1.39 miles)	155
Penn (0.88 miles)	102
Spring Hill (1.24 miles)	47
Colton Hills	37
Lower Penn (1.86 miles)	18
Gospel End Village (1.39 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Colton Hills?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blakenhall	129
Parkfield	93
Ettingshall Park	64
Lanesfield	64
Penn	57
Cinder Hill	56
Spring Hill	25
Colton Hills	20
Gospel End Village	5
Lower Penn	4

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

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 Colton Hills 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 Colton Hills compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Graiseley	65
2	Himley and Swindon	64
3	Ettingshall	64
4	Blakenhall	63
5	Upper Gornal and Woodsetton	54
6	Spring Vale	51
7	Gornal	40
8	Sedgley	39
9	Merry Hill	25
10	Penn	22
11	Wombourne South East	18

Which road in Colton Hills has the highest level of crime?

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