Crime Statistics for Talke, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

There were a total of 46 street level crime incidents in Talke 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 Talke, 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	18
Public Order	8
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Theft	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Shoplifting	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	2
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	46

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 Talke. 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 Talke

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kidsgrove (0.88 miles)	77
Hardings Wood (0.88 miles)	77
Acres Nook (1.24 miles)	69
Clough Hall (0.62 miles)	64
Butt Lane (0.62 miles)	55
Hollins	46
Talke	46
Coalpit Hill	46
Talke Pits (0.62 miles)	26
Dunkirk (0.88 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Talke?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kidsgrove	30
Hardings Wood	30
Acres Nook	24
Clough Hall	23
Butt Lane	23
Hollins	18
Talke	18
Coalpit Hill	18
Talke Pits	8
Dunkirk	3

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

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 Talke 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 Talke compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tunstall	88
2	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
3	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
4	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
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 Talke has the highest level of crime?

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