Crime Statistics for Cannock Wood, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cannock Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cannock Wood, 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	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Public Order	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	7

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 Cannock Wood. 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 Cannock Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Burntwood (1.96 miles)	194
Chase Terrace (1.86 miles)	174
Goosemoor Green (1.39 miles)	44
Cold Well (0.88 miles)	44
Gentleshaw (0.88 miles)	44
Rawnsley (1.24 miles)	35
Creswell Green (2.24 miles)	26
Breretonhill (1.96 miles)	22
Cannock Wood	7
Chestall (0.62 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Cannock Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chase Terrace	106
Burntwood	97
Goosemoor Green	30
Cold Well	17
Gentleshaw	17
Rawnsley	17
Creswell Green	9
Breretonhill	5
Cannock Wood	3
Chestall	1

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

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 Cannock Wood 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 Cannock Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hednesford North	59
2	Chasetown	55
3	Norton Canes	49
4	Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury	31
5	Hednesford South	30
6	Boney Hay & Central	29
7	Chase Terrace	24
8	Rawnsley	22
9	Summerfield & All Saints	22
10	Hawks Green	19
11	Highfield	12

Which road in Cannock Wood has the highest level of crime?

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