Crime Statistics for Balance Hill, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Balance Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 49 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 Balance Hill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime17
Public Order8
Vehicle Crime8
Other Crime8
Other Theft4
Burglary4
All Crime49

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 Balance Hill. 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 Balance Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stramshall (1.96 miles)32
Spath (1.86 miles)29
Balance Hill26
Creighton (2.48 miles)11
Doveridge (2.24 miles)11
Beamhurst Lane (2.24 miles)10
Crakemarsh (2.56 miles)5
Blount’s Green (0.62 miles)4
Dagdale (2.24 miles)4
Birch Cross (2.77 miles)0

5.78%
of Town (East Staffordshire) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Balance Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Spath31
Stramshall18
Balance Hill17
Creighton6
Blount’s Green4
Beamhurst Lane3
Doveridge2
Crakemarsh2
Dagdale2
Birch Cross0

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

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 Balance Hill 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 Balance Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Town52
2Heath32
3Crown27
4Tutbury and Outwoods20
5Abbey16
6Bagots14
7Checkley12
8Churnet11
9Milwich11
10Doveridge and Sudbury11
11Alton6

Which road in Balance Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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