Crime Statistics for Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Boothen in August 2024. There were a total of 252 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 Boothen, 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 Crime99
Anti Social Behaviour48
Public Order24
Criminal Damage Arson20
Shoplifting18
Other Theft14
Vehicle Crime9
Burglary8
Other Crime4
Possession Of Weapons4
Robbery2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime252

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shelton (1.24 miles)396
Hartshill (0.88 miles)366
Fenton (1.24 miles)271
Boothen252
Stoke-upon-Trent (0.62 miles)252
Oak Hill (0.62 miles)179
Penkhull (0.62 miles)179
Springfields (0.62 miles)179
Sideway (0.62 miles)135
Hanford (1.24 miles)62

17.16%
of Springfields and Trent Vale residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Boothen?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Stoke-upon-Trent227
Shelton159
Hartshill154
Fenton101
Boothen99
Oak Hill85
Penkhull85
Springfields85
Sideway78
Hanford22

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

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 Boothen 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 Boothen compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Boothen and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Boothen is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Fenton West and Mount Pleasant82
2Hanley Park and Shelton76
3Boothen and Oak Hill71
4Town69
5Springfields and Trent Vale66
6Hollybush and Longton West64
7Penkhull and Stoke62
8Hartshill and Basford56
9Clayton47
10Westlands38
11Westbury Park & Northwood36

Which road in Boothen has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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