Crime Statistics for Blurton, Newstead, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blurton in September 2024. There were a total of 140 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 Blurton, 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	72
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Burglary	10
Public Order	8
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Shoplifting	3
Robbery	3
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	140

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fenton (1.24 miles)	562
Longton (0.88 miles)	371
Heron Cross (0.62 miles)	204
Dresden (0.62 miles)	184
Hollybush (0.62 miles)	165
Blurton	140
Sideway (1.39 miles)	87
Hem Heath (0.88 miles)	74
Newstead (1.24 miles)	60
Hanford (1.24 miles)	52

Where are the most violent places near Blurton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fenton	225
Hollybush	156
Longton	141
Heron Cross	99
Dresden	95
Blurton	72
Sideway	48
Hem Heath	37
Hanford	36
Newstead	34

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

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 Blurton 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 Blurton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blurton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blurton is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fenton East	88
2	Fenton West and Mount Pleasant	82
3	Dresden and Florence	80
4	Blurton West and Newstead	73
5	Boothen and Oak Hill	71
6	Broadway and Longton East	68
7	Springfields and Trent Vale	66
8	Hollybush and Longton West	64
9	Blurton East	60
10	Meir Hay	51
11	Hanford and Trentham	23

Which road in Blurton has the highest level of crime?

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