Crime Statistics for Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birches Head in October 2024. There were a total of 603 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 Birches Head, 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	212
Anti Social Behaviour	87
Shoplifting	69
Public Order	49
Other Theft	45
Criminal Damage Arson	43
Vehicle Crime	23
Burglary	18
Drugs	17
Possession Of Weapons	14
Other Crime	10
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	5
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	603

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Birches Head. 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 Birches Head

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cobridge (1.24 miles)	876
Hanley (0.88 miles)	685
Stoke-on-Trent (1.39 miles)	627
Birches Head	603
Northwood	603
Burslem (1.39 miles)	359
Abbey Hulton (1.24 miles)	357
Bucknall (0.88 miles)	284
Townsend (1.39 miles)	227
Berry Hill (1.39 miles)	195

Where are the most violent places near Birches Head?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cobridge	329
Birches Head	212
Northwood	212
Hanley	210
Stoke-on-Trent	197
Abbey Hulton	160
Burslem	118
Berry Hill	109
Bucknall	99
Townsend	93

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

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 Birches Head 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 Birches Head compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Joiner's Square	91
2	Moorcroft	90
3	Etruria and Hanley	88
4	Abbey Hulton and Townsend	79
5	Ford Green and Smallthorne	77
6	Hanley Park and Shelton	76
7	Eaton Park	75
8	Birches Head and Central Forest Park	67
9	Sneyd Green	59
10	Hartshill and Basford	56
11	Baddeley, Milton and Norton	54

Which road in Birches Head has the highest level of crime?

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