Crime Statistics for Brereton, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brereton in October 2024. There were a total of 112 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Brereton, 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
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Public Order	15
Other Theft	8
Shoplifting	7
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
All Crime	112

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 Brereton. 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 Brereton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rugeley (1.39 miles)	169
Brereton	102
Etchinghill (2.24 miles)	20
Mavesyn Ridware (1.86 miles)	18
Handsacre (2.48 miles)	17
Armitage (1.24 miles)	16
Brereton Cross (0.88 miles)	14
Breretonhill (0.62 miles)	13
Rake End (1.75 miles)	8
Longdon (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Brereton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rugeley	65
Brereton	54
Breretonhill	12
Etchinghill	10
Mavesyn Ridware	8
Handsacre	7
Armitage	6
Brereton Cross	5
Rake End	5
Longdon	1

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

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 Brereton 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 Brereton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hednesford North	59
2	Western Springs	57
3	Chasetown	55
4	Hagley	54
5	Brereton and Ravenhill	40
6	Etching Hill and The Heath	38
7	Heath Hayes East and Wimblebury	31
8	Chase Terrace	24
9	Rawnsley	22
10	Colton & the Ridwares	21
11	Haywood & Hixon	16

Which road in Brereton has the highest level of crime?

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