Crime Statistics for Beaconside, Stafford, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beaconside in September 2024. There were a total of 416 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 Beaconside, 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	184
Shoplifting	63
Public Order	48
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Other Theft	16
Drugs	13
Other Crime	9
Bicycle Theft	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	416

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 Beaconside. 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 Beaconside

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Forebridge (1.39 miles)	320
Stafford (0.88 miles)	314
Castletown (1.39 miles)	264
Beaconside	230
Tillington (1.24 miles)	212
Rowley Park (1.75 miles)	183
Sow (1.08 miles)	155
Parkside (1.39 miles)	118
Baswich (1.39 miles)	89
Hopton (1.39 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Beaconside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Beaconside	184
Forebridge	138
Stafford	122
Tillington	120
Castletown	104
Rowley Park	91
Baswich	79
Sow	72
Parkside	49
Hopton	0

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

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 Beaconside 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 Beaconside compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Beaconside and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Beaconside is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Highfields & Western Downs	59
2	Manor	56
3	Penkside	55
4	Rowley	51
5	Coton	49
6	Common	46
7	Doxey & Castletown	45
8	Littleworth	40
9	Forebridge	38
10	Holmcroft	30
11	Baswich	3

Which road in Beaconside has the highest level of crime?

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