Crime Statistics for Barnfields, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barnfields in September 2024. There were a total of 12 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Shoplifting.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Shoplifting	2
Violent Crime	2
Other Theft	1
Public Order	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	12

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 Barnfields. 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 Barnfields

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Haregate (1.75 miles)	170
Ball Haye Green (1.39 miles)	168
Abbey Green (1.24 miles)	105
Lowe Hill (1.24 miles)	31
Barnfields	12
Cheddleton Heath (1.39 miles)	6
Birchall (0.88 miles)	5
Longsdon (0.88 miles)	3
Horse Bridge (1.39 miles)	2
Dunwood (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Barnfields?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Haregate	67
Ball Haye Green	61
Abbey Green	29
Lowe Hill	12
Cheddleton Heath	4
Barnfields	2
Birchall	2
Longsdon	2
Horse Bridge	2
Dunwood	1

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

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 Barnfields 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 Barnfields compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barnfields and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barnfields is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dane	59
2	Leek North	55
3	Leek East	46
4	Leek South	37
5	Cellarhead	27
6	Leek West	25
7	Bagnall and Stanley	25
8	Biddulph South	20
9	Cheddleton	10
10	Brown Edge and Endon	9
11	Biddulph Moor	7

Which road in Barnfields has the highest level of crime?

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