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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chesterton in October 2024. There were a total of 158 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 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	76
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Public Order	15
Shoplifting	9
Other Crime	8
Drugs	5
Burglary	5
Other Theft	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Robbery	1
All Crime	158

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 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)	456
Beasley	278
Longport (1.24 miles)	222
Longbridge Hayes (1.39 miles)	210
Porthill (1.39 miles)	198
Chesterton	158
Knutton (1.24 miles)	127
Broad Meadow (0.62 miles)	98
Butters Green (1.39 miles)	37
Apedale (1.24 miles)	10

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	146
Beasley	138
Longport	91
Longbridge Hayes	84
Porthill	76
Chesterton	76
Broad Meadow	69
Knutton	52
Butters Green	22
Apedale	5

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.