Crime Statistics for Breretonhill, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Breretonhill in September 2024. There were a total of 19 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Public Order	8
Violent Crime	5
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	19

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 Breretonhill. 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 Breretonhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rugeley (1.96 miles)	247
Brereton (0.62 miles)	92
Armitage (1.39 miles)	24
Breretonhill	22
Mavesyn Ridware (1.96 miles)	19
Brereton Cross (0.62 miles)	12
Cannock Wood (1.96 miles)	7
Chestall (1.86 miles)	4
Longdon (1.96 miles)	1
Longdon Green (2.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Breretonhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rugeley	95
Brereton	38
Armitage	12
Mavesyn Ridware	7
Brereton Cross	7
Breretonhill	5
Cannock Wood	3
Chestall	1
Longdon	0
Longdon Green	0

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

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 Breretonhill 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 Breretonhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Breretonhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Breretonhill 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 Breretonhill has the highest level of crime?

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