Crime Statistics for Armshead, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Armshead in September 2024. There were a total of 133 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Armshead, 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	83
Public Order	12
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Other Theft	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	4
Burglary	4
All Crime	133

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 Armshead. 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 Armshead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ubberley (1.75 miles)	212
Townsend (1.39 miles)	209
Abbey Hulton (1.24 miles)	189
Washerwall (0.62 miles)	134
Ash Bank (1.24 miles)	83
Armshead	68
Kerry Hill (0.88 miles)	65
Bagnall (1.39 miles)	54
Rownall (1.39 miles)	8
Jack Hayes (0.62 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Armshead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Washerwall	156
Ubberley	128
Townsend	92
Abbey Hulton	89
Armshead	83
Ash Bank	37
Kerry Hill	35
Bagnall	29
Rownall	6
Jack Hayes	1

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

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 Armshead 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 Armshead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Armshead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Armshead have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bentilee and Ubberley.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bentilee and Ubberley	86
2	Abbey Hulton and Townsend	79
3	Ford Green and Smallthorne	77
4	Eaton Park	75
5	Sandford Hill	73
6	Baddeley, Milton and Norton	54
7	Meir Hay	51
8	Weston Coyney	42
9	Cellarhead	27
10	Bagnall and Stanley	25
11	Werrington	20

Which road in Armshead has the highest level of crime?

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