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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cobridge in September 2024. There were a total of 547 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 Cobridge, 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	169
Anti Social Behaviour	87
Shoplifting	86
Public Order	58
Criminal Damage Arson	37
Other Theft	36
Burglary	14
Possession Of Weapons	12
Drugs	11
Other Crime	10
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	7
Vehicle Crime	6
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	547

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 Cobridge. 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 Cobridge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hanley (0.88 miles)	661
Stoke-on-Trent (0.62 miles)	592
Northwood (1.24 miles)	578
Birches Head (1.24 miles)	553
Cobridge	547
May Bank (1.39 miles)	540
Etruria (0.88 miles)	526
Burslem (0.62 miles)	407
Shelton (1.24 miles)	396
Porthill (1.24 miles)	375

Where are the most violent places near Cobridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
May Bank	244
Etruria	215
Hanley	197
Birches Head	186
Stoke-on-Trent	183
Northwood	178
Cobridge	169
Shelton	159
Porthill	149
Burslem	144

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

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 Cobridge 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 Cobridge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cobridge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cobridge is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burslem Central	93
2	Joiner's Square	91
3	Moorcroft	90
4	Etruria and Hanley	88
5	Burslem Park	79
6	Birches Head and Central Forest Park	67
7	Sneyd Green	59
8	Hartshill and Basford	56
9	Wolstanton	51
10	May Bank	46
11	Bradwell	38

Which road in Cobridge has the highest level of crime?

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