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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abbey Green in October 2024. There were a total of 104 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 Abbey Green, 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	41
Shoplifting	28
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Other Theft	9
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	104

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 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)	151
Haregate (1.24 miles)	146
New Mills (1.39 miles)	144
Abbey Green	104
Barnfields (1.24 miles)	56
Lowe Hill (1.75 miles)	41
Harper’s Gate (1.24 miles)	10
Poolend (0.88 miles)	4
Dunwood (1.75 miles)	4
Horton (1.86 miles)	4

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
New Mills	65
Haregate	64
Ball Haye Green	63
Abbey Green	41
Barnfields	27
Lowe Hill	19
Dunwood	2
Harper’s Gate	0
Poolend	0
Horton	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.