Crime Statistics for Norton-in-the-Moors, Norton-Le-Moors, City of Stoke-on-Trent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Norton-in-the-Moors in October 2024. There were a total of 426 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 Norton-in-the-Moors, 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	189
Anti Social Behaviour	80
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Burglary	28
Other Theft	22
Public Order	22
Vehicle Crime	14
Other Crime	13
Robbery	8
Drugs	8
Shoplifting	6
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	426

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 Norton-in-the-Moors. 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 Norton-in-the-Moors

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Norton-in-the-Moors	392
Bank Top (1.24 miles)	390
Chell Heath (1.39 miles)	333
Great Chell (1.39 miles)	333
Ford Green (0.88 miles)	286
Milton (0.88 miles)	195
Baddeley Green (0.62 miles)	146
Ball Green (0.62 miles)	144
Cornhill (0.62 miles)	114
Norton Green (0.88 miles)	112

Where are the most violent places near Norton-in-the-Moors?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Norton-in-the-Moors	189
Ford Green	170
Bank Top	153
Chell Heath	130
Great Chell	130
Cornhill	101
Milton	83
Ball Green	74
Baddeley Green	61
Norton Green	53

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Norton-in-the-Moors?

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 Norton-in-the-Moors 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 Norton-in-the-Moors compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Burslem Central	93
2	Moorcroft	90
3	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
4	Burslem Park	79
5	Ford Green and Smallthorne	77
6	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
7	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
8	Sneyd Green	59
9	Baddeley, Milton and Norton	54
10	Bagnall and Stanley	25
11	Brown Edge and Endon	9

Which road in Norton-in-the-Moors has the highest level of crime?

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