Crime Statistics for Cookshill, Weston Coyney, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cookshill in September 2024. There were a total of 569 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 Cookshill, 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	250
Public Order	80
Anti Social Behaviour	64
Other Theft	48
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Vehicle Crime	24
Burglary	20
Shoplifting	16
Drugs	8
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	8
Theft From The Person	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	569

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 Cookshill. 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 Cookshill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Adderley Green (1.96 miles)	524
Sandford Hill (1.96 miles)	357
Cookshill	283
Roughcote (0.62 miles)	95
Ash Bank (1.96 miles)	83
Blythe Marsh (1.76 miles)	52
Blythe Bridge (1.39 miles)	43
Caverswall (0.88 miles)	40
Moor Green (1.76 miles)	26
Forsbrook (1.76 miles)	26

Where are the most violent places near Cookshill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cookshill	250
Adderley Green	246
Sandford Hill	191
Roughcote	72
Blythe Marsh	42
Caverswall	41
Ash Bank	37
Blythe Bridge	21
Moor Green	14
Forsbrook	11

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

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 Cookshill 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 Cookshill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cookshill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cookshill is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fenton East	88
2	Dresden and Florence	80
3	Meir South	74
4	Lightwood North and Normacot	73
5	Sandford Hill	73
6	Meir North	70
7	Broadway and Longton East	68
8	Meir Hay	51
9	Meir Park	45
10	Weston Coyney	42
11	Forsbrook	26

Which road in Cookshill has the highest level of crime?

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