Crime Statistics for Red Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 32 street level crime incidents in Red Street in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Red Street, 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	14
Public Order	6
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Other Theft	2
Burglary	1
Shoplifting	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	32

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 Red Street. 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 Red Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hollins (1.24 miles)	46
Talke (1.24 miles)	46
Chatterley (1.24 miles)	46
Coalpit Hill (1.24 miles)	46
Red Street	32
Talke Pits (0.62 miles)	26
Butters Green (0.88 miles)	18
Boon Hill (1.39 miles)	13
Bignall End (1.24 miles)	12
Dunkirk (0.88 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Red Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hollins	18
Talke	18
Coalpit Hill	18
Chatterley	16
Red Street	14
Talke Pits	8
Butters Green	5
Bignall End	4
Boon Hill	3
Dunkirk	3

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

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 Red Street 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 Red Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Red Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Red Street is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tunstall	88
2	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
3	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
4	Knutton	62
5	Holditch & Chesterton	55
6	Wolstanton	51
7	Talke & Butt Lane	51
8	Crackley & Red Street	48
9	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
10	Bradwell	38
11	Alsager	21

Which road in Red Street has the highest level of crime?

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