Crime Statistics for Sandford Hill, Normacot, City of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 2024

Is Sandford Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 653 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 Sandford Hill, 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	184
Anti Social Behaviour	90
Public Order	68
Shoplifting	62
Criminal Damage Arson	62
Other Theft	44
Burglary	40
Vehicle Crime	31
Other Crime	26
Drugs	20
Possession Of Weapons	12
Robbery	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	653

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 Sandford Hill. 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 Sandford Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Sandford Hill	549
Adderley Green	515
Hollybush (1.39 miles)	348
Longton (0.88 miles)	345
Fenton (1.24 miles)	284
Fenton Low (1.39 miles)	250
Ubberley (1.24 miles)	229
Bentilee (1.24 miles)	229
Dresden (1.39 miles)	205
Heron Cross (1.39 miles)	174

Where are the most violent places near Sandford Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hollybush	300
Sandford Hill	184
Adderley Green	169
Fenton Low	138
Longton	111
Fenton	85
Dresden	85
Ubberley	79
Bentilee	79
Heron Cross	75

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

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 Sandford Hill 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 Sandford Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandford Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Sandford Hill have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Weston Coyney.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fenton East	88
2	Bentilee and Ubberley	86
3	Dresden and Florence	80
4	Meir South	74
5	Lightwood North and Normacot	73
6	Sandford Hill	73
7	Broadway and Longton East	68
8	Hollybush and Longton West	64
9	Blurton East	60
10	Meir Hay	51
11	Weston Coyney	42

Which road in Sandford Hill has the highest level of crime?

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