Crime Statistics for Cross Heath, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 2024

Is Cross Heath rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 264 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 Cross Heath, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime102
Shoplifting43
Anti Social Behaviour26
Criminal Damage Arson26
Other Theft22
Public Order11
Vehicle Crime10
Drugs8
Other Crime6
Burglary5
Theft From The Person2
Possession Of Weapons2
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime264

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
May Bank (0.62 miles)321
Basford (0.88 miles)301
Newcastle-under-Lyme (0.88 miles)301
Etruria (1.24 miles)269
Cross Heath264
The Brampton (0.62 miles)261
Knutton (0.62 miles)226
Porthill (0.88 miles)166
Broad Meadow (0.88 miles)159
Beasley (1.39 miles)102

8.38%
of Knutton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cross Heath?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
May Bank137
Basford125
Newcastle-under-Lyme125
Etruria119
Cross Heath102
The Brampton101
Knutton94
Porthill74
Broad Meadow66
Beasley43

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

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 Cross Heath 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 Cross Heath compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Moorcroft90
2Cross Heath72
3Town69
4Silverdale68
5Knutton62
6Holditch & Chesterton55
7Wolstanton51
8May Bank46
9Thistleberry40
10Bradwell38
11Westlands38

Which road in Cross Heath has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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