Crime Statistics for Hardings Wood, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Hardings Wood, Newcastle-under-Lyme

There were a total of 102 street level crime incidents in Hardings Wood in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hardings Wood, 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 Crime45
Criminal Damage Arson15
Anti Social Behaviour9
Burglary9
Shoplifting6
Public Order6
Other Theft5
Vehicle Crime2
Drugs2
Other Crime1
Possession Of Weapons1
Robbery1
All Crime102

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 Hardings Wood. 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 Hardings Wood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Acres Nook (0.88 miles)113
Kidsgrove102
Hardings Wood102
Clough Hall (0.62 miles)78
Red Bull (0.62 miles)77
Butt Lane (0.62 miles)72
Hollins (0.88 miles)49
Talke (0.88 miles)49
Coalpit Hill (0.88 miles)49
Hall Green (1.24 miles)29

3.59%
of Talke & Butt Lane residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hardings Wood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Acres Nook45
Kidsgrove45
Hardings Wood45
Red Bull36
Clough Hall34
Butt Lane31
Hollins19
Talke19
Coalpit Hill19
Hall Green18

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

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 Hardings Wood 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 Hardings Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Tunstall88
2Goldenhill and Sandyford83
3Little Chell and Stanfield80
4Great Chell and Packmoor65
5Holditch & Chesterton55
6Talke & Butt Lane51
7Crackley & Red Street48
8Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe46
9Biddulph West45
10Newchapel & Mow Cop36
11Alsager21

Which road in Hardings Wood has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Hardings Wood 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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