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

Is Penkhull rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 220 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 Penkhull, 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 Crime121
Public Order26
Anti Social Behaviour22
Criminal Damage Arson22
Vehicle Crime6
Other Theft6
Other Crime5
Possession Of Weapons4
Shoplifting3
Drugs2
Burglary2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime220

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 Penkhull. 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 Penkhull

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Shelton (1.39 miles)699
Basford (1.39 miles)571
Stoke-upon-Trent (0.88 miles)317
Hartshill (0.62 miles)316
Newcastle-under-Lyme (1.39 miles)315
Boothen (0.62 miles)221
Springfields221
Penkhull205
Sideway (0.88 miles)169
Oak Hill133

7.33%
of Clayton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Penkhull?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shelton259
Basford215
Springfields127
Stoke-upon-Trent124
Hartshill122
Penkhull121
Newcastle-under-Lyme116
Oak Hill87
Sideway84
Boothen83

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

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 Penkhull 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 Penkhull compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Fenton West and Mount Pleasant82
2Hanley Park and Shelton76
3Boothen and Oak Hill71
4Town69
5Springfields and Trent Vale66
6Penkhull and Stoke62
7Hartshill and Basford56
8Clayton47
9Thistleberry40
10Westlands38
11Westbury Park & Northwood36

Which road in Penkhull has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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