Crime Statistics for Abbey Green, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abbey Green in September 2024. There were a total of 105 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	37
Violent Crime	29
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	4
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	105

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 Abbey Green. 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 Abbey Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ball Haye Green (0.62 miles)	168
Haregate (1.24 miles)	151
Abbey Green	105
New Mills (1.39 miles)	84
Lowe Hill (1.75 miles)	34
Barnfields (1.24 miles)	12
Poolend (0.88 miles)	2
Harper’s Gate (1.24 miles)	1
Horton (1.86 miles)	1
Dunwood (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Abbey Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Haregate	64
Ball Haye Green	61
New Mills	40
Abbey Green	29
Lowe Hill	11
Barnfields	2
Poolend	1
Harper’s Gate	1
Horton	1
Dunwood	0

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

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 Abbey Green 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 Abbey Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abbey Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Abbey Green is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dane	59
2	Biddulph East	56
3	Leek North	55
4	Leek East	46
5	Leek South	37
6	Leek West	25
7	Biddulph South	20
8	Cheddleton	10
9	Brown Edge and Endon	9
10	Biddulph Moor	7
11	Biddulph North	5

Which road in Abbey Green has the highest level of crime?

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