Crime Statistics for Littlewood, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 100 street level crime incidents in Littlewood in February 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 Littlewood, 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	43
Shoplifting	12
Vehicle Crime	9
Drugs	9
Public Order	8
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	3
Other Theft	3
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	100

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 Littlewood. 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 Littlewood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rumer Hill (1.24 miles)	154
Littlewood	100
Churchbridge (0.62 miles)	97
Bridgtown (0.62 miles)	97
Great Wyrley	76
Landywood (0.88 miles)	46
Cheslyn Hay (0.62 miles)	25
Hobble End (1.75 miles)	19
Laney Green (1.39 miles)	11
Warstone (1.39 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Littlewood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rumer Hill	53
Littlewood	43
Churchbridge	39
Bridgtown	39
Great Wyrley	34
Landywood	23
Cheslyn Hay	11
Hobble End	9
Laney Green	5
Warstone	1

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

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 Littlewood 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 Littlewood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Littlewood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Littlewood have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Essington.

#	Ward	Score
1	Essington	65
2	Cannock South	56
3	Cannock East	55
4	Norton Canes	49
5	Cannock West	46
6	Featherstone and Shareshill	46
7	Great Wyrley Landywood	39
8	Great Wyrley Town	37
9	Cheslyn Hay North and Saredon	33
10	Hawks Green	19
11	Cheslyn Hay South	19

Which road in Littlewood has the highest level of crime?

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