Crime Statistics for Newchapel, Newcastle-under-Lyme, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newchapel in September 2024. There were a total of 126 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Newchapel, 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	51
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Shoplifting	9
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Crime	5
Other Theft	4
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	126

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 Newchapel. 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 Newchapel

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pitts Hill (1.24 miles)	321
Turnhurst (0.62 miles)	198
Fegg Hayes (0.88 miles)	171
Packmoor	126
Newchapel	126
Acres Nook (1.39 miles)	118
Lane Ends (0.62 miles)	91
Stadmorslow (0.62 miles)	65
Newpool (1.39 miles)	44
Harriseahead (1.24 miles)	34

Where are the most violent places near Newchapel?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pitts Hill	107
Turnhurst	72
Fegg Hayes	61
Acres Nook	54
Packmoor	51
Newchapel	51
Lane Ends	36
Stadmorslow	34
Harriseahead	21
Newpool	19

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

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 Newchapel 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 Newchapel compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Newchapel and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Newchapel is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burslem Central	93
2	Tunstall	88
3	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
4	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
5	Burslem Park	79
6	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
7	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
8	Talke & Butt Lane	51
9	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
10	Biddulph West	45
11	Newchapel & Mow Cop	36

Which road in Newchapel has the highest level of crime?

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