Crime Statistics for Rough Close, Stafford, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 9 street level crime incidents in Rough Close in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Violent Crime	2
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	9

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 Rough Close. 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 Rough Close

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newstead (1.96 miles)	63
Barlaston (1.96 miles)	13
Rough Close	9
Leadendale	9
Moddershall (1.86 miles)	5
Fulford (2.24 miles)	2
Hartwell (0.62 miles)	2
Mossgate (1.75 miles)	2
Knenhall (1.24 miles)	2
Crossgate (1.75 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Rough Close?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newstead	24
Barlaston	2
Rough Close	2
Leadendale	2
Moddershall	2
Hartwell	1
Fulford	0
Mossgate	0
Knenhall	0
Crossgate	0

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

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 Rough Close 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 Rough Close compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rough Close and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Rough Close is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dresden and Florence	80
2	Meir South	74
3	Lightwood North and Normacot	73
4	Blurton West and Newstead	73
5	Meir North	70
6	Broadway and Longton East	68
7	Blurton East	60
8	Meir Park	45
9	Barlaston	32
10	Fulford	24
11	Hanford and Trentham	23

Which road in Rough Close has the highest level of crime?

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