Crime Statistics for Lowe Hill, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, 2025

Is Lowe Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for February 2025. There were a total of 39 incidents. 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 Lowe Hill, 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	21
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Theft	3
Shoplifting	3
Public Order	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	39

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lowe Hill. 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 Lowe Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Haregate (1.24 miles)	176
Abbey Green (1.75 miles)	143
Ball Haye Green (1.39 miles)	135
New Mills (1.86 miles)	71
Barnfields (1.24 miles)	38
Lowe Hill	36
Cheddleton Heath (1.39 miles)	6
Birchall (0.88 miles)	4
Longsdon (1.96 miles)	1
Morridge Side (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Lowe Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Haregate	95
Abbey Green	70
Ball Haye Green	67
Barnfields	51
New Mills	37
Lowe Hill	21
Cheddleton Heath	3
Birchall	3
Longsdon	1
Morridge Side	0

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

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 Lowe Hill 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 Lowe Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lowe Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lowe Hill is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dane	59
2	Leek North	55
3	Leek East	46
4	Leek South	37
5	Leek West	25
6	Churnet	23
7	Biddulph South	20
8	Cheddleton	10
9	Brown Edge and Endon	9
10	Biddulph Moor	7
11	Ipstones	3

Which road in Lowe Hill has the highest level of crime?

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