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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Northwood 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 Northwood, 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 Crime212
Anti Social Behaviour87
Shoplifting69
Public Order49
Other Theft45
Criminal Damage Arson43
Vehicle Crime23
Burglary18
Drugs17
Possession Of Weapons14
Other Crime10
Robbery8
Bicycle Theft5
Theft From The Person3
All Crime603

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 Northwood. 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 Northwood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cobridge (1.24 miles)876
Hanley (0.88 miles)685
Stoke-on-Trent (1.39 miles)627
Birches Head603
Northwood603
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

13.93%
of Birches Head and Central Forest Park residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Northwood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cobridge329
Birches Head212
Northwood212
Hanley210
Stoke-on-Trent197
Abbey Hulton160
Burslem118
Berry Hill109
Bucknall99
Townsend93

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

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 Northwood 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 Northwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Joiner's Square91
2Moorcroft90
3Etruria and Hanley88
4Abbey Hulton and Townsend79
5Ford Green and Smallthorne77
6Hanley Park and Shelton76
7Eaton Park75
8Birches Head and Central Forest Park67
9Sneyd Green59
10Hartshill and Basford56
11Baddeley, Milton and Norton54

Which road in Northwood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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