Crime Statistics for Abbey Hulton, Bucknall, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2025

Is Abbey Hulton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 117 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	55
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Other Crime	8
Other Theft	5
Burglary	5
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Shoplifting	2
Robbery	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	117

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Birches Head (1.24 miles)	710
Northwood (1.24 miles)	450
Bentilee (1.24 miles)	249
Townsend (0.62 miles)	217
Bucknall (0.88 miles)	192
Ubberley (1.24 miles)	149
Abbey Hulton	117
Baddeley Edge (1.24 miles)	72
Armshead (1.24 miles)	61
Kerry Hill (0.88 miles)	38

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Birches Head	255
Northwood	157
Bentilee	107
Townsend	100
Bucknall	71
Ubberley	68
Abbey Hulton	55
Armshead	44
Baddeley Edge	34
Kerry Hill	24

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Joiner's Square	91
2	Etruria and Hanley	88
3	Bentilee and Ubberley	86
4	Abbey Hulton and Townsend	79
5	Eaton Park	75
6	Birches Head and Central Forest Park	67
7	Sneyd Green	59
8	Baddeley, Milton and Norton	54
9	Cellarhead	27
10	Bagnall and Stanley	25
11	Werrington	20

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.