Crime Statistics for Abbey Hulton, Bucknall, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abbey Hulton in September 2024. There were a total of 189 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Abbey Hulton, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime89
Shoplifting20
Anti Social Behaviour20
Criminal Damage Arson17
Public Order15
Vehicle Crime6
Other Theft6
Drugs5
Other Crime5
Possession Of Weapons3
Theft From The Person2
Burglary1
All Crime189

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 Abbey Hulton. 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 Abbey Hulton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Northwood (1.24 miles)578
Birches Head (1.24 miles)553
Bucknall (0.88 miles)302
Ubberley (1.24 miles)219
Bentilee (1.24 miles)212
Townsend (0.62 miles)207
Abbey Hulton189
Kerry Hill (0.88 miles)121
Baddeley Edge (1.24 miles)111
Armshead (1.24 miles)68

7.11%
of Abbey Hulton and Townsend residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Abbey Hulton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Birches Head186
Northwood178
Bucknall112
Bentilee97
Abbey Hulton89
Ubberley87
Townsend84
Armshead83
Baddeley Edge51
Kerry Hill46

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

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 Abbey Hulton 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 Abbey Hulton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Joiner's Square91
2Etruria and Hanley88
3Bentilee and Ubberley86
4Abbey Hulton and Townsend79
5Eaton Park75
6Birches Head and Central Forest Park67
7Sneyd Green59
8Baddeley, Milton and Norton54
9Cellarhead27
10Bagnall and Stanley25
11Werrington20

Which road in Abbey Hulton has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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