Crime Statistics for Hardings Wood, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2025

Is Hardings Wood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 155 incidents. 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 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 Crime81
Shoplifting24
Anti Social Behaviour18
Public Order8
Criminal Damage Arson8
Robbery6
Other Crime4
Vehicle Crime4
Burglary2
All Crime155

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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.

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
Hardings Wood154
Clough Hall (0.62 miles)104
Kidsgrove82
Acres Nook (0.88 miles)78
Red Bull (0.62 miles)77
Butt Lane (0.62 miles)58
Talke (0.88 miles)45
Hollins (0.88 miles)43
Coalpit Hill (0.88 miles)40
Hall Green (1.24 miles)23

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
Hardings Wood81
Clough Hall62
Kidsgrove44
Acres Nook43
Red Bull38
Butt Lane36
Coalpit Hill30
Hollins28
Talke18
Hall Green13

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 Boathorse Road.

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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