Crime Statistics for Church Lawton, Cheshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Church Lawton in September 2024. There were a total of 15 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Vehicle Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
All Crime	15

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 Church Lawton. 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 Church Lawton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kidsgrove (1.39 miles)	192
Hardings Wood (1.39 miles)	100
Hollins (1.39 miles)	90
Clough Hall (1.75 miles)	70
Talke (1.39 miles)	67
Butt Lane (0.88 miles)	62
Red Bull (1.24 miles)	62
Coalpit Hill (1.39 miles)	45
Hall Green (1.39 miles)	15
Church Lawton	12

Where are the most violent places near Church Lawton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kidsgrove	79
Hollins	70
Hardings Wood	43
Clough Hall	36
Talke	35
Butt Lane	26
Red Bull	25
Coalpit Hill	18
Hall Green	4
Church Lawton	0

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

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 Church Lawton 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 Church Lawton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Church Lawton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Church Lawton 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	Talke & Butt Lane	51
7	Crackley & Red Street	48
8	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
9	Biddulph West	45
10	Newchapel & Mow Cop	36
11	Alsager	21

Which road in Church Lawton has the highest level of crime?

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