Crime Statistics for Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chesterton in August 2024. There were a total of 128 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chesterton, 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	64
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Public Order	12
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Burglary	5
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	4
Shoplifting	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Robbery	3
Drugs	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	128

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chesterton. 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 Chesterton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cross Heath (1.39 miles)	483
Porthill (1.39 miles)	375
Longbridge Hayes (1.39 miles)	193
Longport (1.24 miles)	167
Knutton (1.24 miles)	138
Broad Meadow (0.62 miles)	116
Chesterton	113
Beasley	97
Butters Green (1.39 miles)	27
Apedale (1.24 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Chesterton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cross Heath	220
Porthill	149
Longport	117
Longbridge Hayes	100
Beasley	94
Chesterton	64
Knutton	59
Broad Meadow	57
Butters Green	9
Apedale	3

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

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 Chesterton 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 Chesterton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chesterton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chesterton is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Tunstall	88
2	Goldenhill and Sandyford	83
3	Cross Heath	72
4	Silverdale	68
5	Knutton	62
6	Holditch & Chesterton	55
7	Wolstanton	51
8	Crackley & Red Street	48
9	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	46
10	Thistleberry	40
11	Bradwell	38

Which road in Chesterton has the highest level of crime?

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