Crime Statistics for Acres Nook, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Acres Nook in September 2024. There were a total of 118 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 Acres Nook, 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	54
Shoplifting	20
Public Order	13
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Other Crime	5
Other Theft	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Drugs	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	118

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 Acres Nook. 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 Acres Nook

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newfield (0.88 miles)	239
Sandyford (0.88 miles)	239
Turnhurst (1.24 miles)	198
Kidsgrove (0.88 miles)	192
Acres Nook	118
Hardings Wood (0.88 miles)	100
Ravenscliffe (0.62 miles)	71
Clough Hall (0.62 miles)	70
Talke (1.24 miles)	67
Coalpit Hill (1.24 miles)	45

Where are the most violent places near Acres Nook?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kidsgrove	79
Turnhurst	72
Newfield	68
Sandyford	68
Acres Nook	54
Hardings Wood	43
Clough Hall	36
Talke	35
Ravenscliffe	33
Coalpit Hill	18

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

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 Acres Nook 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 Acres Nook compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Acres Nook and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Acres Nook is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tunstall	88
2	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
3	Little Chell and Stanfield	80
4	Great Chell and Packmoor	65
5	Bradeley and Chell Heath	60
6	Holditch & Chesterton	55
7	Talke & Butt Lane	51
8	Crackley & Red Street	48
9	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
10	Bradwell	38
11	Alsager	21

Which road in Acres Nook has the highest level of crime?

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