Crime Statistics for Sandyford, Tunstall, City of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandyford in September 2024. There were a total of 239 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sandyford, 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	68
Shoplifting	53
Public Order	38
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Other Theft	15
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Crime	8
Burglary	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	239

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 Sandyford. 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 Sandyford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Great Chell (1.24 miles)	612
Chell Heath (1.24 miles)	519
Tunstall (0.88 miles)	366
Pitts Hill (0.62 miles)	321
Newfield	239
Sandyford	239
Turnhurst (0.88 miles)	198
Acres Nook (0.88 miles)	118
Ravenscliffe (0.62 miles)	71
Chatterley (0.88 miles)	46

Where are the most violent places near Sandyford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Great Chell	228
Chell Heath	194
Tunstall	122
Pitts Hill	107
Turnhurst	72
Newfield	68
Sandyford	68
Acres Nook	54
Ravenscliffe	33
Chatterley	24

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

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 Sandyford 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 Sandyford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandyford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sandyford is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burslem Central	93
2	Tunstall	88
3	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
4	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
5	Burslem Park	79
6	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
7	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
8	Wolstanton	51
9	Talke & Butt Lane	51
10	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
11	Bradwell	38

Which road in Sandyford has the highest level of crime?

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